Day 5

So today was another great day! Today we went to the same office as yesterday, just to sign paperwork to say that Lilly is officially a Vogt. This took about an hour -- afterwards we went to a "grocery store" - it was actaully a Carefore -- I think there was one of these back in Philly by the Franklin Mills Mall many years ago. It is a store that is sort of a mall, think of a Super Wallmart, only twice the super. Thank goodness Nancy our guide was with us as it is very different shopping in China, for one thing, even though the Large name on the baby formula says Nestle, or Similac - you can't read anything else except for the numbers. Also, there is an isle with all the baby formula with like 4 employees hanging around making sure you just take a ticket, then you go pay for what you want, then come back with your receipt to pick up the item.

At any rate, we managed to get what we needed.

We spent most of the day in the hotel, Lilly took a long nap this afternoon.

We went to a Mall after she woke, this was on our own - the mall is about a city block away. It was actually very adventurous as the streets are extremely dangerous to navigate - not to mention, this is a local mall -- not set up for "foreigners" - and thus everything is in Chinese. It was interesting to say the least. Then we went to a Hagen Das -- kind a neat -- we can both eat an entire Chinese meal for less than 5 US dollars, but to get one Hagen Das ice cream -- about 11 dollars.

So, Lilly is now sleeping -- she is such a good sleeper. She puts her self to sleep in minutes, we are 5 feet away with the TV on and she is sleeping away. So far, so good. We only pray that it will always been this good.

Thanks for following along -- tomorrow we head about 2.5 hours out to Lilly's orphanage to see where she spent the past 14 months!