Exploring Guiyang

Today we got the chance to explore Guiyang. It was neat to explore the area that is where Asher was born and soak as much of it in. It is not a small city, full of high rises everywhere, lots of honking day and night. Grief really hit our son hard this morning, so it was good to get out and not be confined to the hotel. 

We walked through a few parks that had some organized tai chi or dancing exercises for the older women.

Then we turned down this path to see a temple and ran into tons of older couples dancing in the courtyard in front. When they stopped, they completely swarmed the other couple we were with. People are very curious about us, we get lots of stares and people take our picture every day. We have seen no westerners here at all since we've been in guiyang. 

We found a neat government building from the 1400s down on the river, surrounded by some gardens.

This afternoon we finally got to get out of the city. Except for Guiyang, Guizhou province is generally known for being more rural and mountainous. Our guide took us to this beautiful cave park. 

We took a boat trip into these amazing caves. Asher loved it and was talking nonstop the whole time.

Overall it was a day of ups and downs. Asher had a foster mama that loved him so much which is wonderful. But he missed her. It's also a day that I got more eye contact, he held my hand, and he called me mama.