Tuesday in Nanchang

Today has been a more relaxed day! Our agency had a pediatrician visit the hotel to check all the babies. Just about all of them have colds and one little one has pneumonia, so they got her medicine right away. Mia does have a cold but is doing really well considering we are so strange to her. Our guide taught us all some "basic talk-to-baby Mandarin" to help out.. She is not exactly sure what to make of us speaking the language sometimes but it helps to calm her down when she gets upset :)

 

China is amazing, we will have so many stories, pictures and videos!!! There are just SO many people! Nanchang is very "Authentic China", as our rep keeps reminding us. The apartment buildings are overwhelming, the average family lives in 500-600 sq ft. All the laundry is hung out the windows. Everything is pretty dingy :( Most people have never seen a foreigner in person, so we are quite the spectacle!!! They are very inquisitive and many come up and read the tags we wear around  our necks explaining we are here to adopt the baby. We get a lot of smiles and thumbs ups :) They love to squeeze Mia's cheeks or legs :) The language barrier is pretty tough, even in the hotel. Last night at dinner we played a very respectful game of charades to get some chili sauce, LOL.

 

Mia really likes to be outside so we did some exploring outside the hotel today. She babbles a bunch when she is out :) It made me nervous to venture too far! Crossing the street is quite an event, a really pretty scary, seriously!!! A is much more adventurous than me. Our rep prepared a group dinner for us at the restaurant next door. The food was really good and they had a huge cake to celebrate the the birth of the babies' new lives :) Mia ate a ton of noodles and liked the cake too! Hope you enjoy the pictures- M