Day 6

So today we drove 2.5 hours each way to Huai'an City to see the orphanage where Lilly spent her first 14 months of her life. As you can see in the photo's Lilly learned to make a new face while driving in the bus today. She is pretty awesome! She slept most of the trip (both ways). When we arived we were given a great welcome. The orphanage directer and assistant director, one of Lilly's nannies and as it turns out, a reporter too. They made a sign which we are told says Welcome Home Li Le. After we took pictures, they took the sign down and gave it to us as a momento.

They then took us out to a very fancy lunch. It was a little intimidating having the reporters ask us questions, even at lunch. So... try answering questions, handling a baby and eating with chop sticks all at the same time. Oh yeah, and not sure if I mentioned this earlier but, when you go out to eat at a Chinese restaurant, typically it is a round table with a large lazy susan type thing in the middle of the table. The waitress puts food on this spinny thing and then they spin it around and everybody takes their turns using their own chopsticks eating off of all the plates on this spinny thing. -- picture going out to eat, eating a little of your steak, then handing your plate to the person sitting next to you, they then eat a peice of your steak and hand it to the next person, eventually it comes back around and you continue eating your steak. It is definitely something that you have to get over -- especially when the Orphanage director invites
you to a fancy dinner! It was very good we spent a few days in Beijing practicing using chopsticks and learning all this etiquite

It was a fun day!