Well I must admit the best part of my day was waking up and getting an email from Bailey, Kyle and Landon. Thank you Tammy. It sounds like you are having the best time. Dad and I can not thank our family and friends enough for taking such good care of you and providing such a wonderful time for you. Today was a down day with nothing in particular planned. A few of us, Scott, Nancy, and the Andersons hired Ryan, Michaels trainee, to take us on an adventure. We started with a taxi ride. That is always the frightening part. The driving is insane. I am so surprised we have not run into something or someone. There are so many close calls. We first went to the zoo to see the pandas.


It is over cast today and much cooler so we were hoping hey would be out in where we could see them. They have about 7-10 pandas and we were able to see most of them. They were playing in the grass, climbing around or eating bamboo. It was very cool. They are big and very cute. We saw many other animals.

We all felt bad for the monkeys. They are not taken care of like our zoo. The cages are old and dirty and dark. They are actually chained up inside the cage. We understand this is so that they can not get to close to the bars to put their arms out. There are not trees for them to have fun on. It was sad. In the parka areas at the zoo we saw people doing Tai-chi it was fun to see.

As usual we were quite the attraction ourselves. People, Chinese and American like to gather around to see us with our babies. After the zoo we took the monorail to the city to get lunch. We ate at pizza hut. Yummy like home. Then we headed to a Budhist temple. There were a lot of beggar in front of the temple that were maimed in some way. It was sad. We did a little shopping on the street including some for DVDs. I wanted to get the series of Everybody Loves Raymond but they wanted 50.00 us dollars so I declined and just got Narnia for about a 1.00. We left at 9:00 and got back around 3:00. Jade did not sleep the whole time we were gone. She fell asleep in the taxi on the way back. She doesn't like to miss a thing. She won't let Brent hold her yet so by the time we got back my arms were hurtin. We faked her out and gave her to Brent when she fell asleep at the hote.

Around 5:00 we went to Li Ping's room, our facilitator, to look over some papers. We also got our back basket from Michael's friend. It is very cool. We know that Jade's birthmom left her in a back basket at the entrance to a park. We have been looking for a basket since we got here. We are not sure exactly what type of back basket she was left in but the one we have is nice and a great representaion of how her birthmom must have loved her. We are grateful for Michael's help in our quest. We then went to dinner, Brent has taken photos of the buffet so you can all see how well we eat. Somethings are interesting but all in all we have not gone hungry. After dinner we went to Dana's room. She is a single mom that adopted. She has two friends with her, Lisa and Leah. They are awesome. They are from New Jersey. (Yeah Mom).

Dana did not want to go the the orphanage so we downloaded our photos to her computer for her. Their little girl is so cute. Very playful and smiley. Darling. Her name is Shaelyn. Tonight is our last night in Chongqing. We will fly out tomorrow around 6:00 to Guongzhou. We have been delayed waiting for the girls passports. We even had to pay 50.00 more to expedite them. It has been fun here but we are all looking forward to moving on. We will be in Guongzhou until Sat. Friday we will get the babies Visas and then HOME!! Guongzho is supposed to have good shopping so we are looking forward to that. So next post in a new city.