Friday morning we walked to the Memorial Hall to the Martyrs of the Revolution. Lots of photos and statues and memorabilia detailing the 1925-49 struggle by the communists to overthrow the imperialists/kuomintang/japanese. The museum honours the fallen in this struggle, men and women (given equal prominence in the museum), mostly in their mid-20's. Not sure they would have wanted their legacy to be either the cultural revolution or the hyper-commercialized China that we're now visiting. I won't tell you how much shopping Kate has done on this trip, in case it is misconstrued as anti-revolutionary behaviour.
In the afternoon we went with Helen to Elephant Lake Park, so-named due to the shape of the lake. A peaceful retreat from the bustling city.
Then we stopped to buy a painting of a mountain scene - we both really liked the painting when we passed the little gallery a few days ago, and when we went back with Helen it turns out that the painting is set west of Nanchang, not too far from where Zoë is from. Then we went to a Chinese restaurant for a great spicy beef and bean dish, yummy broccoli and a few other concoctions, which we took turns scarfing down as Zoë got ravenously hungry at the same time. She is turning into an enormous eater!!
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