A Day at the Zoo

Sometimes our lives in the hotel room getting ready to leave in the morning feel like a zoo, but we went to the real Guangzhou zoo today with the group. (There are 10 families traveling together from our agency, and we are bussed around everywhere).

I just got a chance to get to all my emails this afternoon. besides all the parenting stuff, we've been very busy all week going to appointments and meetings. today was our first "fun day", a trip to the Guangzhou zoo. It was a beautiful day, and we got to walk around for a couple of hours in the sun looking at the animals. The Panda is the big attraction there.

she is doing great, better every day. we skipped the shopping outing everyone went on this afternoon and have just stayed in the room relaxing. she loves to just play with things while sitting on the floor. she's a little entertainer now, and likes to smile and make faces and make us laugh at her. we took her to the clinic in the hotel and she does have a slight upper resp. infection, so we have to give her anti-biotics and some cough/phlegm medicine. she HATES it and screams the whole time. we feel so bad! i am dreading 9 more days of giving her the medicine! i guess this is the "tough love" part of parenting.

tomorrow the whole group is going to a buddist temple where the Chinese monks traditionally like to bless the adopted children before they leave the country. the blessing is suppose to travel with them for the rest of their lives outside of China. they feel since they were born in China, in a buddist country, they should be blessed as such. of course it's optional, and some Christian couples have actually not wanted to go through the (Buddist) blessings. we think it will be interesting, and will probably go. the temple is very beautiful too. i don't think the blessing will make her become a buddist... =)

we also have the address for the local SDA church in Guangzhou, which Freely was great enough to email to us. we'd really like to attend at least a part of the service, which i think will be very interesting. we're going to see where it is and if we can get there on our own.

other than that, things are going well. she had her first experience with Cherios today and LOVED them! i even posted some video of it which was funny. everything is a new experience for her, and she loves to explore and touch everything. she is so interesting.