Day 4
Mary here. Mia is having her afternoon nap (she is a champion sleeper!) and John is on a trip to the orphanage. We made the decision not to take Mia on a 3 1/2 hr hot and bumpy bus ride so I stayed here at the hotel with her. It was pouring this morning so went went to the toy room, and then window-shopped at the expensive shops in the hotel(oh she is Mommy's girl!) and then went for some Dim Sum. There are several restaurants at the hotel - the one we went to serves authentic chinese dishes and dim sum, I was the only caucasion in the restaurant, most of the North Americans seem to choose the buffet downstairs, where we have breakfast. Mia and I were quite a novelty in the the restaurant - none of the serving staff speaks english but they have many dishes on display around the restaurant, and we find that pointing and nodding seems to work fine. I had more dim sum that I could finish, plus a pop, for about $6. Canadian.
Mia continues to amaze and delight. I am going to post pictures after I type this - altho I understand that the pics John posted yesterday did not go through. It's weird, we can post on the blog, but can't view what we are posting. Numerous websites are inaccessble here.
I know when we were preparing to travel I followed blogs religiously, hoping to glean some information that would help me on our journey. So this next paragraph is for the adoptive parents:
All the girls in our groups are extremely healthy; Mia was perhaps the worst for wear, with her poor little face being covered in mosquito bites. Each baby had a "rattle" in the chest but that seems to be going away. The babies seem much younger developmentally than their ages. None of them can sit up, and many, including Mia, are still very wobbly. We have weighed Mia on the bathroom scale and she is barely 7 kg. Just a peanut~ The Gap 6 - 12 month stuff fits okay, just a little big. The transition went smoothly, she turns to hear our voices now, and we get many smiles and the occasional laugh now. It seems incredible that we have only had her for three days - and we think she has shown signs of "catching up" already!
She is very good eater and a good sleeper, which I think has made everything very easy!
Everyone in our group is going well and the babies are adapting wonderfully. John and Richard have developed a real taste for Tsing Tsao beer and in fact, the wine stinks here so that seems to be the drink of choice for Cornelia and I also. We are really enjoying the spicy Hunan cuisine, and our guide, Professor Wu, joined Cornelia, Richard, their adult daughter Amy, and John and I (and Katelin and Mia of course) for dinner and to his surprise we out-spiced him.
We miss Jack and Harry desperately and are happy that they are in good hands with Teresa, and now Grandma and Grandpa Sandrelli. We'd love to come home now but have to wait for Mia's chinese passport and then go to Beijing to get the Canadian immigration paperwork done. At least Beijing will be interesting. Changsha is a big, hot, industrial city. The Wal-Mart was an experience - they even sell live frogs for dinner!
By the way, I thought I would eat anything, but the Turtle Soup last night, with the litty bitty whole Turtle in the bowl, was something I passed on!
John may post more later when the group returns from the orphanage.
Mary, John and Mia ("Zhou Zhou")
Mia continues to amaze and delight. I am going to post pictures after I type this - altho I understand that the pics John posted yesterday did not go through. It's weird, we can post on the blog, but can't view what we are posting. Numerous websites are inaccessble here.
I know when we were preparing to travel I followed blogs religiously, hoping to glean some information that would help me on our journey. So this next paragraph is for the adoptive parents:
All the girls in our groups are extremely healthy; Mia was perhaps the worst for wear, with her poor little face being covered in mosquito bites. Each baby had a "rattle" in the chest but that seems to be going away. The babies seem much younger developmentally than their ages. None of them can sit up, and many, including Mia, are still very wobbly. We have weighed Mia on the bathroom scale and she is barely 7 kg. Just a peanut~ The Gap 6 - 12 month stuff fits okay, just a little big. The transition went smoothly, she turns to hear our voices now, and we get many smiles and the occasional laugh now. It seems incredible that we have only had her for three days - and we think she has shown signs of "catching up" already!
She is very good eater and a good sleeper, which I think has made everything very easy!
Everyone in our group is going well and the babies are adapting wonderfully. John and Richard have developed a real taste for Tsing Tsao beer and in fact, the wine stinks here so that seems to be the drink of choice for Cornelia and I also. We are really enjoying the spicy Hunan cuisine, and our guide, Professor Wu, joined Cornelia, Richard, their adult daughter Amy, and John and I (and Katelin and Mia of course) for dinner and to his surprise we out-spiced him.
We miss Jack and Harry desperately and are happy that they are in good hands with Teresa, and now Grandma and Grandpa Sandrelli. We'd love to come home now but have to wait for Mia's chinese passport and then go to Beijing to get the Canadian immigration paperwork done. At least Beijing will be interesting. Changsha is a big, hot, industrial city. The Wal-Mart was an experience - they even sell live frogs for dinner!
By the way, I thought I would eat anything, but the Turtle Soup last night, with the litty bitty whole Turtle in the bowl, was something I passed on!
John may post more later when the group returns from the orphanage.
Mary, John and Mia ("Zhou Zhou")
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