Karah, at Chen Clan Family Academy

Today we went to the Chen Clan Family Academy. This photo is about a man telling a story for others to hear, if they like it they would pay him for the storytelling, if not they would just walk away. We shot a few photos there but it is mostly like a museum with displays inside. I have some photos on my Handycam that I will post here later because I have to wait until the DVD is finalized to be able to copy them to this blog. I added some airport pictures that were taken yesterday (below). You can right-click and select "view in separate window/tab" to enlarge them. You can see some of the other children/babies in those pics. A few Chinese families came up to talk to us and thank us for adopting the children. The area we are staying in is full of foreigners and tourists. At night there are a lot of young people with boisterous activity in the streets. There are a lot of young American military men around and many of them have Asian ladies with them. There also are many, many adoptive families here in the hotel. In the morning buffet, they have a section already set up with a baby chair at each table. We went to a supermarket to get baby supplies. Right now it is almost 2PM here and we are resting in the hotel. The hotel is very posh. On the bottom floor it is like an art shopping mall/museum. There is a large waterfall in the center atrium. You can see the website at http://www.whiteswanhotel.com/ if you are interested. I just have been too busy to shoot many interesting pictures. I will try to get a few and post them later. MeiLi has become more demanding of us which is challenging but is a good thing .. she's feeling very comfortable with us.

She also has started finger-painting on the hotel window. I think Karah showed her how to do that. Tomorrow we got the an Animal park and will see Pandas amongst other animals. It is quite hot and humid here compared to Kunming. Maybe we will try the pool soon.