Needless to say we had a great experience at the Jade Museum/Store and even bought some things. Of course our salesgirl "Lisa" was really good at selling and knew that The Rock was an easy pushover when it came to symbolism of money. She told him the story of the Pixiu, which is mythical creature that will bring wealth. We now have a small jade statue of a Pixiu, but if you come to our house to see it please do not touch its mouth or eyes because the wealth could go away. We do not want that :)
I on the other hand had seen a lot of information about the family jade balls from various families that had adopted from China. These balls symbolize our grandparents as the outer ball, our parents as the next inner ball, The Rock and I as the third inner ball and then the final ball enveloped by all of these represents Cherry Blossom. They were having a "Sale" on these because it was after the Chinese New Year, and of course I am a sucker for sales! After bartering "Lisa" also threw in a jade statue of a tiger for Cherry Blossom since she was born in the year of the tiger. She laughed when we told her that The Rock was also the year of the tiger and I am the year of the dragon. She says that we must be a very strong-minded family, very true :)
Here are some pictures from our experience at the Jade Museum.
1) This is the artisan carving one of the family balls. It takes him 7 days to complete just one ball.
2) I of course loved the Cherry Blossom tree made out of jade but since it cost over a thousand dollars I just took a free picture :)
3) Our purchases of the day.
4) The oriental pictures covering the museum walls
5) various statues/vases created out of jade that were pretty go look at but not enough to buy :)
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