China Trip - Tueday Afternoon 11/25

After our trip to the zoo, we went to the adoption registration office. While we waited for our appointment time, we walked around a large open area that had shopping and restaurants.

We were all posing for a group picture. As you might imagine we draw quite a crowd. Here is our view of the crowd gathering to watch us get our group photo taken.

As I mentioned, the Chinese LOVE Caucasian boys. Here a crowd gathers to look at Andrew. You can see me letting him know not to be worried by the growing mass. They just stare at him smiling and giving him a thumbs up. Occasionally they will touch his hair. Terri and Anslee are in the store behind us.

Another view. Eventually a policewoman came and made everyone move away.

Here we are on a side street. Lots of vendors selling merchandise to the locals. The cart to the right is assorted candies.
Time for some Starbucks!
Watching a video at the Adoption Registration office.
They gave us 10 minutes to look at Anslee's adoption paperwork and we were not allowed to make any copies or write anything down. They had everyone's paperwork spread out on this counter. It was all in Chinese, so we grabbed one of the guides to help us translate.

We were told that that Anslee was found at about 8:00 in the morning by a lady on her way to sell produce. She saw a small bundle wriggling and thought that is was a animal of some kind but as she got closer, she realized that it was a baby. The baby was wrapped in a very tattered red blanket. This is significant, as red is a color for good luck. Also, when babies are abandoned, they are usually left in the nicest clothing/blankets that the family owns. The fact that the clothing Anslee was found in was in such bad shape would leave you to believe that her family was extremely poor. As you can see below. This was a very emotional moment.

Here is where we had dinner. A pirate ship in China!