Today was our last day in China and we are ready to come home! The day began around 3:00 am with a snuggly baby girl crying to get in bed with me, after which she did acrobatics in a light sleep while I tried to keep her from falling off our twin bed. For some reason, the double rooms we've had here in China contain two twin beds. My only complaint of the room--American sized people need bigger beds! After a couple more hours of keeping the baby on the bed we got ready for the day and headed down to the breakfast buffet. It was plain toast for me today since my stomach is definitely tired of Chinese food. I tried Tabitha once more with the congee, the baby food staple of China, but she shook her head no violently and pointed at the buffet. Now she knows, there's more to food than congee.
After breakfast we went with our group to the Guangzhou Zoo. Tabitha slept through the first half but enjoyed seeing all the animals. I thought it was a good warm up for our house of dachshunds, especially the part where you can go in the monkey habitat and hand feed them. We actually just watched since I don't think monkeys and babies mix well, at least not as well as dachshunds and babies. Apparently, lawyers aren't allowed in China because in the US there would be at least 30 lawsuits per day over this monkey business. The zoo was an old zoo, very well kept and very pretty. The one resident 60 year old panda even got up and stretched his arthritic bones for us.
Next there was souvenir shopping around the hotel. We didn't get anything yesterday at the Pearl market, sorry guys, so thought we better at least get some "My friends went to China to adopt and all we get to do is babysit" t-shirts for our friends back home.
Finally, there was the trip to the consulate where we completed the last step in China needed for Tabitha's adoption. We swore an oath that we were truthful in our paperwork and had our passports checked for the millionth time on this trip. As soon as our plane lands in Chicago, Tabitha will be a US citizen! Someone needs to greet us at the airport with a Happy Meal since she swore an oath never to eat congee again. Some nice Chinese ladies talked with her on the steps to the consulate in Chinese. I don't know what they said but when one tried to touch her she pushed her hand away and turned her head. The lady probably offered her congee.
Yea! We're coming home now with our tiny opinionated US citizen.
1 comment:
It sounds to me like she has been one of the family since birth, she just didn't know it yet. Has she had a happy meal yet? There are McD's in China, right?
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