Shamian island

The second week of this journey offers a lot of down time and time to sight see as we are waiting for our appointment with the American Consulate to obtain a visa for Ivy to enter into the United States.  A trip to Guangzhou would not be complete without a little shopping for traditional chinese dresses and while there are many places to find them, Shaiman Island offers one of the prettiest setting to do this.  We scored and were able to even get dresses for the girls American Girl dolls.