Zai jian, Nanchang.

We are finished with our week in Caylie's province of Jiangxi, and will be leaving the city of Nanchang in a couple of hours.  Our guide, Shirley, is picking up Caylie's passport this morning and we'll be our way to the airport shortly after that.  We'll be traveling with the the Wong family, who are also here with our agency.  They have adopted 8 children from China and we're so glad they've been with us through our first adoption journey.  

This next week will be in in Guangzhou in the province of Guangdong, where the American consulate is.  Caylie will have a medical check and we will apply for her Visa.  And we hear it is even hotter there than it is here.  Yeesh. . .  

Here are a few random photos before we go:

Putting on chapstick before bed.  She looooves chapstick!

 This is the photo that was taken at the Civil Affairs Office where we finalized the adoption.  

This is a sign in our bathroom.

And this is the potty that Caylie has used all week.  As you can see, it has a head and handles.  I kept thinking that it was so weird to make a potty like that, since the child has to take off their pants to sit properly on it!  Then I realized - it's a potty for children wearing split pants!!  Aha.  LOL

Oh, and speaking of that . . poor girl is wearing size 4T panties that are seriously huge on her.  I tried to find some smaller ones at two different stores, but they just don't have them.  Then another realization came - children with size 2T tushies in China don't wear underwear, because they're wearing split pants!  My poor punkin.  Haha.

Keelan and Caylie modeling her glasses.  As you can see, she's already broken one pair and Baba had to buy another.

Our humongo bed.  The biggest bed I've ever seen, and also the hardest.  I'm pretty sure it's just a sheet over a wooden plank.

Our room.  Keelan and Justin have another room next door.  They wouldn't let us put everyone in the same room, although I'm sure we could have all fit in this bed!

New glasses.

Goodbye, Nanchang!

Around Nanchang

Here are some photos we've taken around the city of Nanchang, in no particular order.

View from our hotel window.  Yes, it is very smoggy.  This was a cloudy day, but even on a sunny day it is "cloudy".  

 Boys in the hotel.

 Caylie's crib.  She wanted nothing to do with it the first night, but she doesn't seem to mind now.

This track and field were right outside our window.  (Well, 24 floors down!)  Every day we watched different things occurring on it, like kids playing soccer and basketball, a car driving around the track over and over in circles(??), a man standing in the center with an umbrella in the rain for several hours (???)  and school students doing their morning exercises.  It was a source of entertainment before we got Caylie, haha.

Here are the students doing their exercises.  There must have been several hundred.

 Mama and her girl.

The lobby of the Galactic Peace hotel.

I don't even know when this was taken.  

Police cars.

 Took this from inside our van.  This man is pulling a cart that is piled high and long with packages and bags.

Electric wires wound around tree branches and poles.

Here's that same guy, going by our van.

And there he goes.

Traffic on a side street.  Hopefully I can get some good video of the insane traffic before we go.

A monument we saw on the way to Walmart.

What looks to be a very old crane or something, still being used in construction.

A building we saw on the way to Walmart.

This man was playing a zither of some sort for money outside of Walmart.  

The boys at a monument near Walmart.

Stores near our hotel.

Scooter parking.

Apartment building.  One of zillions.

A plate full of sea horses and a plate full of sea cucumbers.

Dinner at a Chinese restaurant our guide took us to last night.  I tried the eel.

 Caylie snarfing down her fried rice.

Boys at the supermarket.

And back at the hotel, there is fun at the pool!  Here, you must wear swimcaps!  Haha.

I took these from the window of the pool room at the hotel.  They are apartments in the neighborhood, next to our 5-star hotel.  

The view from our hotel at night.