Nanchang - 11/5

Yea to the election results!!!!

Today was another rainy day. We have yet to see the sun since we left Columbus. It rained most of the day and we are getting cabin fever. We went for a short walk and even crossed the street! We just got in the middle of a group of people and dodged the oncoming traffic with them. There are lots of bakeries, produce and flower shops. We saw the first chicken feet in a deli sort of shop. It was hard to determine what the other meats were. It's amazing people can earn a living in their little shops. We were out in the afternoon so we saw lots of children. Most of them said hello. We continue to get lots of stares. Paul was told he was very handsome today. After that and the free beer at the buffet he said he may not want to leave here. Seriously though, we are all ready to come home and we still have over a week left. We are hopeful that the next city will have more to do close to the hotel.

We tried to take Halle swimming today but she didn't like it. I wouldn't have blamed her because the water was really cold. Instead she sat on the side and played with her stacking cups like she does in the bath tub. She also had fun with the Cowen "miracle" bubbles :)

We found out that they have western food at the restaurant downstairs. We were pretty excited. We feel like we haven't had a full satisfying meal yet. The kids got cheeseburgers. I had a Hawaiian chicken salad and Paul got the Chinese buffet. Gail - he tried the octopus and wasn't too thrilled with it. It was on a stick. You could see the tentacles on it! I was going to get a chef salad until I saw that it was served with ox tongue ;)

We took Halle to the 11th floor again where there is a play area for the kids. Halle decided she has a new best friend and wouldn't leave Sami's side. She wouldn't even go to Paul. Sami gave her a bath again and put her to bed. I'm still hoping she will come around to me eventually. It is getting better. She will let me hold her if she is in the mood and she only pushed me away a few times today. I'm trying to give her space. It's just hard. There are several others in our group that are experiencing the same thing. From what others have said we definitely don't have it the worst. I'm just grateful that she has started to bond with at least one of us. Halle is the oldest of the 14 babies in our group. I'm sure it is harder for her. I think it would be easier if we could communicate using the same language but that too will get easier I'm sure. She said daddy today and Sami thinks she said ball too.