This morning we actually had to set an alarm and force ourselves to get up early for our big consulate appointment. We got all dressed up in red white and blue and headed over there with another family. We were told there as an oath, questions and then you were done. I had heard that it has a DMV feel, but I thought I would at least cry during the oath. Well, talk about an underwhelming feeling. The oath is a raise your hand and swear that our documents are accurate. That was it. There was no promise to care for our children, to tell them about their heritage and culture, to love them always... nope... just honesty on paperwork. After the oath our names were called. They looked at all the documents and we had to sign one thing. Then we were done! We did get our photo in the special photos spot that everyone gets photos in so that was fun. It is crazy to think about this time 8:30am on January 28th being here and being over. We prayed so hard for this date to be our CA and the Lord so faithfully answered our prayers.
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| Seriously we look ready for a 4th of July parade! |
After the consulate we came home so T could take a 7 minute nap before heading to the zoo. It was a nice little zoo. T slept a lot of the time, but we got to see some fun animals and even some we had never seen before, like the lesser panda :) The photos with captions tell the story better.
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| We wanted to get a family photo, but T was not thrilled as she would have to look into the sun. |
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| We decided to quickly flip flop where we were standing, but T cranked her neck so quickly. This photo is actually great though as you can tell we were having a good time. |
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| An elephant in the flowers! This zoo gets a bad rap from adoptive parents but it is a sweet little zoo, it doesn't compare with new big zoo's in the US, but it was a sweet way to spend the morning. |
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| T was born in the year of the dragon. Here she is with her statue. |
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| While most of the animals were imported from somewhere, this is the one zoo I have been to where Pandas are natives so we thought that deserved a photo! |
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| This little guy was new to us. He is a "Lesser Panda" according to the sign! He looks like a cross between several animals. |
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| T LOVED holding on to the Lesser Pandas for this photo. She was laughing with delight in reality, but none of the photos really captured it. |
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| M' daddy and I thought you would have loved to watch these silly little guys. Their tales stick straight up in the air! |
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| Almost our entire travel group from our agency. Such special people! |
When we arrived back at the hotel we noticed that our room was being cleaned. We headed to the area around the waterfalls to just soak up the warm sun for a few minutes. T was sleeping away in the Ergo and I was inclined to keep her there all day. So sweet.
When we got back to the room I was able to get in touch with a traveling mom friend who happens to also be a family doctor! She confirmed that the rash we spotted on T is scabies. Yahoo, right? Well, at least we have spotted it while here and not once home. We also bought the expensive meds in the US just in case so we will all 3 treat ourselves tonight since Brandon and I have been in contact with T's skin. Hopefully we will not get it. Once we get home we will need to wash all the clothes we brought with us and hopefully prevent it from spreading to everything at home. Just a part of the process I guess :)
T finally went down for an afternoon nap around 3:30. She took a short nap and I searched like crazy on the internet to find flight times and destinations with Cathay/American for Wednesday if we miss our flight. It looks like within a couple hours of our flight departure there are flights to both LA and San Fran. We can then connect to Chicago and still be home with our sweet M before bedtime on Wednesday. This is NOT plan A and we are trusting that our travel agent was honest in our chances of making the flight and we are trusting most of all in the Lord as we (and we pray others too) have faithfully been petitioning that we will make our flights! God is faithful. We know He has this thing covered.
Tonight we went to Tekila for dinner. While it is spelled uniquely it is pronounced like tequila. I am a sucker for Mexican food, so this was a meal that was hard to miss out on. The food looked good. I had some steamed rice. It was a surreal experience to be in Ch*na and eating at a Mexican restaurant with a family who I have gotten to know on FB but was now communicating with in real life.
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| Mexican food... and 2 sweet girls who were not interested in looking at the camera. |
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| The aftermath of T's busy hands. Our friend's daughter V knocked over a bottle of water shortly after that... amazingly after a broken glass and a water spill we still had to request our bill. |
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| T says, "This is not my name! It is close, but not the same!" |
After dinner we made a trip to the grocery store for diapers and wipes and snickers... the essentials! We think we have enough diapers, but we felt like it was too close for comfort. I was able to find a package with just 7 in it so that was perfect. I had to buy 80 wipes as that is the smallest package they had, oh well.
When we arrived at home my tummy was not feeling so good and we knew we had the big task... scabies treatments for all. After letting T pay for a while we decided to have Brandon shower first, bathe T in the middle and then Brandon would put T to bed while I showered and and applied the cream. In hindsight it was all much less stressful than I imagined. The cream has little smell and feels like lotion. Making sure it is on every single inch of you is what is challenging. I think we were all successful. The hard part now is that it can live off a host for 3 days so we are supposed to wear all clean clothes for the next few days... hmmm tomorrow is day 12 of our trip so clean clothes are hard to come by. Overall we will be fine, but our jackets, the Ergo, and a few other things will be a challenge. Please pray that we don't bring this back to our parents, M and our home!
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