Shenzhen

Our our long flight to Shenzhen was uneventful (that's a good thing!) We were all afraid to see the hotel because the Nanning hotel was the best ever! The people were great, our room was great... but a lot of the rooms were moldy-ish! The first morning the kids had a press event/photoshoot at the hotel. Then w took off to check out the city.  We found a Mexican restaurant called Amigo's; it was pretty good! And then we found a ColdStone!!!  Yeah!  We found a subway station and went to Windows of the World. It was great  We took a tram around it to see what it was all about, we saw all kinds of miniature villages from around the world!  We spent quite a bit of time at the Alps, an indoor skating rink and skiing "hill"!  We ended the evening...where else...at the arcade! 

 Opening night was VERY special because they had some children who were victims of the earthquake give flowers to our kids at the end of the show! The kids were in several newspapers!

Saturday morning the kids were bussed to a press event for one of the presenters. They sang two songs answered a couple of questions and then came home.  There were 2 shows that day and 2 the next so we were extremely busy! When we had free time we walked around the city but saw nothing much new anymore!

Monday was a "Golden Day" - no press, no play! So we took off for "The China Cultural Center".

We took a tram through part of Shenzhen to the Center.  Once the kids found the water park, there we stayed most of the day! We went to see "The Dragon and the Pheonix", the most spectacular show that I have seen since I saw  Cirque du Soleil "O".  It had everything in it from dancers to acrobats, fire and water (falls and rain and fountains) and horses and unbelievable costumes and great music!  we bought the CD to show you guys!

Matthew's been doing a math program this summer, and he been very diligent since we've returned to China, trying to do math three days a week between the shows, the press, and sightseeing.  On the last night in Shenzhen we had a cast and crew meeting.  We all found out that we would be returning home once again on August 22!! Broadway Asia couldn't book us for six weeks but had 10 weeks booked later in 2008 into 09. The Company decided to close this leg of the show until then.  We're all invited back but since Matthew is pushing 5'6" as we speak, I'm not so sure he'll be an appropriate Friedrich in 3-4 months!!!! But we'll see! We can't wait to get home though!

So after the meeting we all discussed our mixed feelings about the announcement then left for Guangzhou the next morning!