Day 8

Sorry about the lack of updates, my last e-mail apparently didn't go through - came back that connection was lost. Sooo...

Yesterday was busy, we flew from Nanjing to Guangzhou -- we arived around 6pm or so, we were told that the facilitator would meet us at the airport, but actually the hotel shuttle was there waiting for us. It turns out that the shuttle picked up one of the other members of our original group up in Beijing, so that was exciting.

We met our facilitator -- Helen (not the person it was supposed to be) back at the hotel and she helped us check in - then (and this is close to 8pm) she took us for a walk locally to let us know where to get some food and water (as you can't drink the water out of the tap -- not even to brush your teeth). There is actually a Subway nearby, so that was a refreshing and quick dinner -- though they use bread and butter pickels instead of dill -- actually kinda gross, but familiar nonetheless.

Today we took Lilly to have her medical exam. At the clinic. Scary place -- we waited for long periods of time, we had to see 3 separate people (someone to weigh her (24 pounds!) someone to look at her ears and throat and a doctor to "examine" her. -- each interaction took less than 3 minutes, they pretty much couldn't really speak English, and so they didn't really tell us much -- then we had to wait for her injections -- she needed 6 vaccines. -- one at a time, they drew some of them up as they were administering -- one in one leg, one in one arm, 2 in the next arm, 2 in the next leg -- seemed like this was hours long -- Lilly was so upset it was not cool. But 5 minutes later she had her lunch (still only drinks from a bottle - won't let us put a spoon anywhere near her mouth) and she was all good. Gave her some tylenol later this evening before bed, but she still seems to be fine and is sleeping away -- she is a trooper!

Nothing much else happened today, did some paperwork, went out to dinner with the whole group of 5 families from the adoption agency...

Tomorrow we do some more shopping and sightseeing (and we will probably be buying a stoller!)
Hopefully I'll have another update tomorrow (although Ashley and the rest of the family will hopefully be heading to Disney sometime Sunday -- so there may be another delay)