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A picture for Samuel and Micah of eels for sale - and this wasn't a pet store!
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A picture for Samuel and Micah of eels for sale - and this wasn't a pet store!
The Hotel in Nanchang had a playroom for babies called Funland so we took Abby there and put her in the walker. She liked it but then she bumped her lip so this is her reaction.
We just finalized paperwork with the orphanage director! Now we wait for our visa so we can leave the province and finalize the national level paperwork. Abby is adopted.
This is a sideways view of the Chinese potty at the airport. It's not to difficult to use but it is a cultural experience! We have found some western ones. By the way mom, there are lots of things that remind me of home here: the day we went to the Great Wall, I ate some really good green stuff that tasted just like mustard greens, we drove past a statue of General Li who apparently conquered Beijing, it's 97 degrees today and the hotel towels smell just like the Stockyards so I haven't been homesick one bit!
Our first full day in China was very packed! We took a tour of the Jade Factory, we climbed the Great Wall of China, went to the Frienship Store for lunch, and walked through the Ming Tombs. Then we visited the Silk Carpet Factory, went to a Kung Fu show, and ate a traditional Peking Duck dinner. We are very tired and we took our video camera today so we can't post any pictures because we don't have the software for the camera on this laptap (the laptop we had planned to take bailed out on us the day before we left!) We are very excited for tommorow. Our video camera is charging and we'll bring the digital! We fly to Nanchang in the morning.
We flew through Chicago, had a great flight to China in the exit row & even took pictures of the North Pole from the plane. We had dinner at the hotel and walked around a mall & got water. Tomorrow, we climb the great wall! We miss you Samuel & Micah & everyone! I haven't been able to load pics yet but I'll try again my tomorrow night.
We made it! We had a great flight over, we had exit row seats with extra leg room. We met another couple from Missouri on our flight who are adopting a 10 month old from Hunan. I took a picture of the North Pole out our plane window. We haven't slept alot but we are checked into our hotel, a very nice Howard Johnson's, and we are going to try to find some dinner. We miss you Samuel & Micah and everyone. Maybe when we get back in we can put up pictures.