Zhengzhou Life

We are staying in Zhengzhou until this coming Friday- so we will have been here a total of 9 nights once we're at the end of our stay.  Zhengzhou is the capital of the Henan Province, where Kenan was born, so we have to stay here awhile until we get all of his hometown paperwork complete.  Strider, Kenan, and I ventured out on Saturday to a park near our hotel and snapped some photos and videos to give you a little taste of what we're experiencing here in China.  We are definitely the object of everyone's attention when we go out because it is so strange to see Americans walking around with a Chinese baby.  And we get chided by the Chinese grandmas sometimes because they think we're not dressing him warmly enough.  I don't think Kenan's arms or legs have ever even seen the sunshine.  My how that's going to change when we get back to Florida!

You have to look closely at this picture to see why we took it.  This little boy's hiney cheeks are hanging out- we see this everywhere!  Apparently they do this so it's easy for little ones to go to the bathroom- probably because they don't want to take off all those layers of clothing when they need to go!

 

 

They had this festival in this little park by our hotel.  One of the parts of the festival included all these people painting these figurines.  We took video of it because it was so interesting to see all these little kids patiently painting these figurines in the park.  There is even a Lakers one on the table. 

 

All these paddle boats are in the center of the lake in this park and there are always people out there paddling them around.

The park is actually quite pretty.  It's like a little oasis in the center of the madness of this city.  I'll post more pictures next time of what the actual city looks like.

 

 

And, of course I have to post a video of Kenan that we took yesterday while he was asking for more cheerios at our hotel.  He says, "mama" (because that's one of the only words he knows) and turns his head to the side when he wants more of something.