Last post from ChangSha

Well, we're all done here and we're officially Maddie's parents as far as the Chinese are concerned. Now we have to move on the Guangzhou and take care of the American side of things. No picture tonight and I'm not going to miss the computers at this hotel. We'll try to get more of those up from the next hotel.

Yesterday, Kim went to Maddie's orphanage in Changde and took a few pictures where it was allowed. She met her nannie as well as the head nannie and director. The head nannie wrote a note for Maddie in Chinese to read to her when she's older. Daddy made out fairly well on his own for the first time, except maybe too many snacks, she didn't want to drink her bottles. In the afternoon we went out to an Embroidery factory and Kim did some shopping. Today we went to a local park to take in the flavor of the local people going about their business. A lot of older, retired people there, doing traditional dances, excercising, and watching the silly tourist's go by. Consensus is that Maddie is the most beautiful baby in all of China, which, of course, we already knew. After that, we walked along a riverwalk with lots of gardens and spots to sit and relax. Tonight we are packing again, for the flight tomorrow. Even though it's only an hour flight, it looks like the whole trip will take up the better part of the day, so the next post may not be for a couple of days, and as always depends on whether or not we can even get to the blog...