Wednesday

Wow, today was a very longgggg day. 

Chloe woke up happy today just because she does not want to be known as grumpy.  She again ate a very large breakfast.

Our first stop of the day was to drop off laundry, we could have had the hotel do it, but we had heard it was fairly cheap to do it at a local store, so we loaded up our 6 days of clothes and took them to the cleaners.  You can imagine Dennis' surprise when it was $90, yes in American dollars.  Luckily Dennis did not choose for us to wear dirty clothes the rest of the trip :) but it is some very expensive washing they are doing for us. 

Then we headed to the orphanage.  It is a new facility and very large.  Our guide told us that it can house about 300 children but currently about 90% are in foster homes.  We met the director and assistant director and a couple of other people there, it was very obvious that they loved the children.  We were told that Chloe was returned to the orphanage last week from her foster family, and the director and one of her assistants took care of her, she actually slept with them.  They were sad that Chloe was very uninterested in going to them.  We were able to walk around outside the facility, play on the playground.  We met several of the older children preschool thru younger elementary age, many special needs.  Yall should be glad we did not have the ability to bring them home, because I do believe I would not have hesitated to say, send them with me I will find a home for them.   

From there we headed to the finding places of Chloe and Deacon, Dennis is going to tell you about that. 

Then we went to lunch, our guide chose a traditional Chinese Family restaurant again, where they bring many dishes to the table and place them on a lazy susan.  Chloe was our entertainment.  She was contently eating her cheerios when they placed the first platter and then she tried to climb to the middle of the table to get to the food, unfortunately it was a platter of very tough meat,  BUT the next bowl was fried rice, I told Dennis to scoop some quickly.  She ate two bowls of rice and then 2 bowls of an egg custard,  i was shoveling it in as fast as I could go.  Then she ate a bowl of ice cream and the only reason she stopped eating was because we had to leave.  SO FYI Jacque, we are going to need those 18 months clothes very soon if she keeps up this pace. 

We chilled at the hotel for a few hours then headed to Pizza Hut for dinner. Where yes once again Chloe entertained us.  She was not as hungry, and apparently is not a pizza fan.  But the waitress brought out our drinks late, pepsi and 7 up.  Chloe grabbed Dennis straw and was trying to put it in his glass so we decided to let her have a drink and she consumed almost half of his 7 up.  That is the picture of her with her head in a class, Her facial expressions were priceless.  We had been having trouble getting her to drink, but since that 7up she has had a bottle of water and a bottle of formula. 

Tonight we attended a show at West Lake called "Impressions" it was choreographed by the same man that did the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics.  IT was actually on the lake on a stage they built right under the water, so it looks like everything is happening on the water. 

Well it is 10 o clock here, we are going to sleep soon (yes I have become an early bird).