When we leave....

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Guigang

Today we travelled 2.5 hours north east of Nanning to what we all thought was the village of Guigang - in reality Guigang is a village of 4.3 million people - of whom only 300,000 actually live in the city - many are famers and labourers and it is the town where most of the girls were found and where the orphanage is located.

We were able to visit the outside of the orphanage and take some pictures - then we were taken the locations where each of our daughters was found . We were happy to be able to take a picture of where Olivia was found to share with her in the future - while we may not understand the circumstances - she was found in a busy place where I am sure she was not alone for long.

It was a beautiful scenic drive and all the babies were so good.

Tomorrow we are off to the caves and a local park.

Olivia continues to be more comfortable with us each day - she is very busy and active - into everything and can't sit still for too long...she loves to hear the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (over and over!)

She dug in with both hands at the chinese restauant last night and created quite a mess but loved every minute of it - for those of you wondering how Mike fared - he ordered the traditional Chinese steak and spaghetti dinner.....while we are enjoying our time here - we miss everyone and are looking forward to moving to the next stage of our adventure - back to Beijing on Saturday.

1 comment:

The Scandiffios said...

Steph and Mike,

Your daughter is beautiful! Cannot wait to see you all soon ...

Riley is still owning the basketball court!

See you soon,

Susan