If you are looking for photos, go to the post before this 🙂
Wedensday started with Nadia getting up at 10 pm, 12 am and 4 am. This appears to be a routine she likes. Get some food and some play and make sure that we are still here. She went back to sleep after the 4 am feeding and then got back up around 7 am. The plans for the day included a half day tour of the Teng Wen Pavillion. We barely had time to grab some food off the breakfast buffet before we had to get on the bus. All the babies in the group appeared to be doing well and ready for adventure.
We took the bus over to the pavillion and worked our way up the steps (there were a lot of them) and took an elevator to the top floor to watch a traditional Chinese show. The girls from the performance were out front and you could pay 10 yuan for a photo with them. We got a pretty good shot which in included in the slideshow. The show was very cool and Mike got some great video, but this cheap little laptop doesn’t play it very well, so we will put those up when we get home. Nadia didn’t really like the music, I don’t know if it was too loud or too high pitched, but I missed most of the show to keep her in the back away from the speakers.
After the show we walked down one level and were able to go outside around the edges and the view of Nanchang was so great. The pavillion faces the river and you could see all the ships going past and a bunch of skyscrapers on the other side of the river. Mike got some great shots from up there. It was very hot and it was really nice to be up at the top with breeze blowing. I had Nadia in the carrier and she promptly fell asleep. We did some more sightseeing and then worked our way down the steps. It was really beautiful there, but so darn hot for the babies, especially in the carriers.
We walked over to a traditional Chinese Nanchang restaurant and the food was FANTASTIC. Once again we were able to eat for about $5 a person and once again I got sick about 12 hours later. So we have decided that the spices in Nanchang disagree with me. Mike says he could eat that food all the time. The pepper beef has been his favorite at each restaurant. One of the grandma’s on the trip is Chinese and lives in Hong Kong and she told me that Nanchang food is hard on a lot of people and that I should stick with things that I know until we move on to GZ. She is originally from a village outside GZ and she said the food should be easier to eat there. Yeah for instant oatmeal and Wonderbars!!!
Back on the bus and to the hotel with all the hot and tired babies for nap time. (Okay, it was nap time for all the parents too) Once we woke up it was play time again. Yeah for cute babies! Nadia likes to check up out and make sure we are around still. When one of us holds her, she looks for the other one and tried to watch what they are doing. It’s really cute. Nadia’s dresses were going to be ready at 4 pm and our guide said he would take Mike on the hunt for a computer and as soon as Mike got his shoes on Nadia tried to go to him. It was the first time she reached out to either of us and we both teared up. This was when we really felt that she thinks, “They are MINE!”
Nadia and I made the trip to Tiffanies to pick up the dresses and to buy more cookies and water at the grocery store while Mike was on the adventrue of his life in “real” China, not adoption tour group China. (the wafer cookies here RULE and they come in all these crazy flavors like Cantelope and stuff) YUM! I also picked up more Diet Coke from Tiffani. She said that it’s not really popular with the Chinese, so it’s hard to find at the regular stores. I dropped off a bag of baby clothes with Tiffani also because she does baby laundry as a free service.
We headed back to the hotel to wait for Mike and just played. She really started to get fussy quickly after she realized that Mike wasn’t there. She would point to other rooms in the suite and she would look all around and then get more ticked off that Mike wasn’t around. Fussy city in room 2003!
Mike came back, told me his story which totally had me rolling laughing and Nadia was a happy girl to see her Daddy. We had dinner in the room and played some more. We also gave the cutie another bath and she seems to think it’s okay. She doens’t fuss, just looks at everything and thinks about it like everything else she checks out.
Sleepy time came and she was up again overnight at 10 pm, 12 am and 4 am. I was starting to think that we were going to get sleep deprived as this goes on and we try to sleep when she sleeps. Mike says she is getting on American time early for us and I just think she faked us out the first night by sleeping the whole night through.
A little part of me thinks that we should be out wandering around taking in the sights, but another part of me just wants to look at and play with our baby. She is a sweet wonderful girl and seems so calm and peaceful. We are so in love and even more we are grateful to God that He allowed this precious girl to become a part of our family.
We love all the comments and emails we have received and we keep telling her that she is going to get loved up when she gets home to make up for the 9 months without a family. Love, Louanne