Tour of Chongqing

Today has been fun. Brent and Jade both slept in until 7:00. Brent stayed up doing some work until about 3:00 am. He has a hard time getting anything done while Jade is awake. He is so facinated by her. Even when she is asleep. In fact that is what he is doing right now is watching her sleep. What an amazing little girl. We are so blessed to have her in our lives. We know for a fact that she was supposed to be ours. We can feel it. She is such a great addition to our family. We can't wait to get her home and just watch her grow and flourish in every way.

After breakfast we met with the group and went on a tour of Chongqing city. First we stopped at a civic center. The architecture was amazing. I will post a photo of it.



We watch a demonstration of scrol painting and other fine painting. It was beautiful. Brent loved all the art work. While we were there I held Jades hands up and helped her walk. She can not walk on her own but she sure can with help. She was just a goin. She was cute because she leads with her belly. She will be waking in no time, especially with Bailey, Kyle and Landon to keep up with.

Next we went to E'ling Park. It is a beautiful, hilly park. It has a very tall building in the middle of it that allows you to look all over the city. The city in Chongqing is enormous. It has to be there are 6 million that live in this city and another 24 million in the surrounding Chongqing municipality. That is a total of at least 30 million people.

While we were there we went to a tea house and watched a demonstration on how to drink tea. It was facinating. We did not drink any but watching the others was fun. They would sniff, swirl, slurp, and smack their lips. It was fun.


From there we went to eat at a HOT POT. Chongqing is famous for their Hot pot restaurants. We sat around a table and in the center is boiling broth. In the center of the broth is another very spicy broth. I sat on the side of the table that the breeze was blowing and got the most amazing facial from the steam. I was so hot. The food was very good.



After lunch we went back to the hotel. Jade fell asleep on the bus and is still sleeping. It was a long day for all the babies because of the heat. They were troopers. All sweet babies. I am hoping to get photos of each membe in the groups babies tonight at dinner and I will post them so you can see. A few in our "big group" that are in Nanchung have websites if you want to see them. Their sites are www.myadoptionwebsite.com/chloereese
They live in Kaysville. and www.myadoptionwebsite.com/avaluzhou. They live in Salt Lake. You can just click on it from here and it will take you there. It has been fun for us to tack them. We will hook up with them in a few days to finish all the babies paperwork and get their visas. Then it is homeward bound.


Bailey Kyle and Landon- I LOVED getting your message. Its sounds like you are having a ball. Bailey I included a photo of Jade looking at the bracelet you made her. She loves them and they look so cute on her. Kyle and Landon I also included a photo of man at breakfast. This man kept using his napkin to wipe the sweat off his head. I guess he got tired of having to put it up there so he just left it. I thought it was great fun.


At the hot pot Scott was sweating to I put a napkin on his head and took a photo. He is a funny man. There are many fun sites here to see. Some day we will bring you all here and you can see Jades birth place. It's not the same without you. Be good, have fun at Tammys. We love you like mad.



Love Mom and Dad, and Jade Oh - a funny thing our guide Michael told us. They have a KFC here and he said that the slogan "Finger Likin Good" translates into "Eat your fingers off". Funny. Love to all. Also I hope you all know that if you click on the photos you can see the pictures bigger.