Today's blog will focus on the morning of 11/23. We were taken to a government building where a homecoming ceremony was held honoring all of the children who were adopted from the Fuling orphanage. After the ceremony they took us to see the Olympic venues.
Building where the ceremony was held.
As I mentioned, 40 families traveled to China. People traveled from the US, UK, Holland, and Australia. This photo gives a visual of all the families.
A picture of Anslee with one of the guides.
The Director from The Bridge of Love Adoption Service (A Chinese run agency) gives the opening remarks. Alice interprets, she was one of our primary guides for the trip.
The were many officials on hand.
After several speeches, I think they love to give formal speeches, we were treated to a performance.
After the performance, all of the adopted girls were asked to come on stage and were given a commemorative engraved piece of crystal. Anslee is in pink on the right.
Family photo after the ceremony. All of the families were given red scarves to wear as red is a very symbolic color in China.
After the ceremony we visited the site of the 2008 summer games in Beijing.
Andrew and Anslee at the Birds Nest.
This is a great picture of the Water Cube as it also show the traditional grey China sky.
Stay tuned for a blog on the afternoon trip to the Great Wall!!
1 comment:
wow, terri! what a trip! how wonderful for all four of you. i'm sure that it was fun to show off anslee (and andrew, of course), and you did tons of sightseeing! i look forward to hearing more about the trip when I see you next month:)
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