Day 7 - People's Park
Today started off rough. Ivie woke up at 4:30 am and would not go back to sleep. She cried nonstop for about an hour and a half. We tried having her watch a Baby Einstein but that didn't last too long because she can't focus on anything for very long. So I took her outside at 6:30 for a walk and that calmed her a little. But after breakfast she was pretty good. We discovered that airplane rides and being held up in the air will elicit lots of giggles and smiles.
We were going to take a tour to People's Park - which is basically like Central Park in Nanchang. But about 1/2 hour before we left she crashed out. We let her sleep for a while and then we had to go. So I was able to change her diaper and put her into the hip hugger without her waking up - pretty slick.
The park was very cool, there were people everywhere. There were old couples ballroom dancing, people doing Tai Chi. But we were the star attractions. CCAI has given us all cards with our name and the hotel name on the front (in case we need to take a cab the cabbie knows where to take us) On the back, in Chinese, is a note saying that we are Americans and we are here to adopt this baby and that we will take her home and love her forever. This note sure came in handy because everyone would come up to us and coo over the babies. Sometimes you couldn't go 10 feet without being stopped.
We had a blast in the park. I am not sure that the babies enjoyed it but the adults sure did. We attempted to play Chinese chess on a life size board with 100 lb granite pieces. But the highlight by far was the hampster balls. Basically you get into this plastic thing which an employee blows up with a hose making it into a ball. They then push you into the water and you have to run to keep the thing moving. At first just the young kids, Wade and Joey Yamaguchi and Jake and Parker Mosher did it. But then Uncle Barry, Brett Winningham, Eric and Diana Mosher all got into the fun. It was a hilarious sight to see. Of course us all gathered around drew its own crowd and we again became the entertainment for the locals.
After we tired of the fun in the park, we went to lunch at a local restaraunt. They had food for us and for the babies. First they gave us a noodle soup which we were supposed to feed the babies with chopsticks. Ivie loved the noodles and knew exactly what to do with the chopsticks. But she wasn't sucking in the noodles like the other babies so a lot of them ended up on her and on the chair. She also had steamed eggs and her favorite, watermelon.
We had fried lotus root - very good, beef soup, bok choy, dumplings filled with sweet cream (my favorite), taro stuffed with pork (it was so good that Eric proclaimed it his new favorite food ever), some sort of moo shu and Chinese donuts. It was served family style on a lazy susan. The total bill wasd 30 yuan per person or about $3.90 per person - I love China.
Right now it is nap time - daddy and Ivie are both out cold. Ivie didn't want to go to sleep at first when we put her in the crib so she moved around a lot. When she finally fell asleep, she was sideways in the crib with her feet sticking out the sides - so cute.
Today started off rough. Ivie woke up at 4:30 am and would not go back to sleep. She cried nonstop for about an hour and a half. We tried having her watch a Baby Einstein but that didn't last too long because she can't focus on anything for very long. So I took her outside at 6:30 for a walk and that calmed her a little. But after breakfast she was pretty good. We discovered that airplane rides and being held up in the air will elicit lots of giggles and smiles.
We were going to take a tour to People's Park - which is basically like Central Park in Nanchang. But about 1/2 hour before we left she crashed out. We let her sleep for a while and then we had to go. So I was able to change her diaper and put her into the hip hugger without her waking up - pretty slick.
The park was very cool, there were people everywhere. There were old couples ballroom dancing, people doing Tai Chi. But we were the star attractions. CCAI has given us all cards with our name and the hotel name on the front (in case we need to take a cab the cabbie knows where to take us) On the back, in Chinese, is a note saying that we are Americans and we are here to adopt this baby and that we will take her home and love her forever. This note sure came in handy because everyone would come up to us and coo over the babies. Sometimes you couldn't go 10 feet without being stopped.
We had a blast in the park. I am not sure that the babies enjoyed it but the adults sure did. We attempted to play Chinese chess on a life size board with 100 lb granite pieces. But the highlight by far was the hampster balls. Basically you get into this plastic thing which an employee blows up with a hose making it into a ball. They then push you into the water and you have to run to keep the thing moving. At first just the young kids, Wade and Joey Yamaguchi and Jake and Parker Mosher did it. But then Uncle Barry, Brett Winningham, Eric and Diana Mosher all got into the fun. It was a hilarious sight to see. Of course us all gathered around drew its own crowd and we again became the entertainment for the locals.
After we tired of the fun in the park, we went to lunch at a local restaraunt. They had food for us and for the babies. First they gave us a noodle soup which we were supposed to feed the babies with chopsticks. Ivie loved the noodles and knew exactly what to do with the chopsticks. But she wasn't sucking in the noodles like the other babies so a lot of them ended up on her and on the chair. She also had steamed eggs and her favorite, watermelon.
We had fried lotus root - very good, beef soup, bok choy, dumplings filled with sweet cream (my favorite), taro stuffed with pork (it was so good that Eric proclaimed it his new favorite food ever), some sort of moo shu and Chinese donuts. It was served family style on a lazy susan. The total bill wasd 30 yuan per person or about $3.90 per person - I love China.
Right now it is nap time - daddy and Ivie are both out cold. Ivie didn't want to go to sleep at first when we put her in the crib so she moved around a lot. When she finally fell asleep, she was sideways in the crib with her feet sticking out the sides - so cute.
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