Hanging out in Guangzhou

Today was the first day we had no official appointments. We're just now waiting for our adoption paperwork and Emma's passport to be processed. We met our group at 10:00 (lovely not to have to rush to make the 8:00am meeting time we've had every other day - of course, it would have been even lovelier if Emma hadn't decided to get up at 6:00am!!lol) and we went out to the Carrefour store to get some diapers, formula and a stroller... what a shopping experience... total chaos!! Interesting though and you realize how frustrating it is to not be able to read the language... we were all standing in front of a row of formula, trying to figure out which was the kind we needed - not an easy task when you have no idea what the packages say!!lol From there, we went to a gorgeous park and got to have a little fresh air. The older kids (Meg, Sushan, Sarah and Thomas) got to run around and play in a playground. Okay, so we realized as we kept walking and happened upon a children's playground that what we were playing on was actually exercise equipment!!!lol The kids loved it though, they thought it was a very different kind of park with fun, colourful equipment! After that we just came back to the hotel to relax and recover. We'll probably go for a swim this afternoon and since everyone could use a little taste of home, we're ordering from Pizza Hut for dinner!!lol Including a few pics from today. :-) We're having a bit of a rougher day today. Emma's a little grumpy. The kids all seem to be constipated which is making them a bit less than happy right now... hopefully the prunes and juice will help our cause!lol Gary and I were joking that now that the papers are signed, Emma figures she doesn't need to be the angel she was on the first day!!lol Just kidding...she's still pretty angelic. We think the kids are just totally overloaded with sights and sounds at this point... what a shock this all is to their little lives!! I have to say, they're all handling these changes amazingly well... they're quite the little darlings.