day 10

Well today was a doozie!

We woke up today, Lilly slept later than usual - we noticed that her one ear was all red and irritated - had to call our facilitator -- who called the clinic we were at over the weekend for her "check up" for the adoption -- yeah, as it turns out she had an ear infection -- well, they actually are saying that she had a boil in her ear. So the clinic felt bad I guess that they didn't follow protocol and address this on Sat, so they saw her today (quickly) and gave us antibiotics -- both orally and for her ear.

So then we headed over with 3 other families to the local markets. This was an interesting visit -- they say that the local people will eat anything that flies in the air, except an airplane, and anything that has 4 legs except a table. We definitely saw evidence of this at the market -- everything from scorpians to snakes to frogs to spiders. First we saw all these things alive as we were walking, then we went to the restaurant street I think she called it, and a couple of people in our group actually ate some scorpians on a stick. They said that they tasted crunchy - kinda like grilled chicken skin. We didn't really even think about trying it.

So we actually ate at an "Italian" restaurant -- we ordered too much pizza (I think the familiarity of it enticed us -- well, as it turns out there is no sauce on this pizza. Also there is tons more cheese than I have ever had on a pizza. And lots of greese. Although it was relatively cheap, it was disapointing.

So we came back to the hotel and Lilly took a nap.

We went out to eat with the 2 other families that we were with in Beijing -- it's crazy, but all 7 adults and 2 children had a very satisfying meal for about $50 US dollars!!

Hope you all enjoy the pictures!!!! (only 5 days left till we are home!!!)