Nanchang Day Five

Today was our last full day in Nanchang. Anli is spending much of the afternoon getting all of our paperwork finalized so we can travel to Guangzhou tomorrow to begin getting the adoption paperwork processed by the US Consulate so that Jennifer can become a US Citizen. Partly to pass the time today, Anli arranged for the bus to take us (and also Etu, Eugenio, Jim, Debbie, and Caitlin) to a big park near our hotel. It was incredibly hot out but still felt good to get out of the hotel. We took J Ro in the stroller and she didn't seem to mind the heat (again, we think she's used to this kind of heat!). The park was such an interesting scene: there were old people practicing Tai Chi and people playing traditional Chinese musical instruments and singing, and little kids playing in the water sprinklers. It was a really nice scene and something that had nothing touristy about it.

Other than our trip to the park, one of the ways we have been spending time is just staring at beautiful Jennifer Rose and taking photos and video of her. She's a complete social butterfly - wherever we go, people come up to her and she gets excited and starts babbling.

J Ro has really enjoyed sleeping on grandpa Eugenio and also playing and singing with grandma Etu.

One thing that has been funny is how many of Jennifer Rose's clothes don't fit -- they are too big! So this morning we had to do three costume changes before we found an outfit that didn't fall off. But Etu keep saying "she's a perfect size - with great muscle tone!" So we're not worried. But when we get home, we know grandma Thedie will have to come and start serving massive quantities of chicken soup and matzoh ball soup to fill her up!

Ok - we're going to try to take a nap while J Ro is sleeping. So more later. Here is a video of J Ro crawling (sort of) on our hotel couch. I'm also going to try to load two other ones (one with grandma Etu and one with the waitresses in the hotel restaurant).








J & R