Today we signed and finished the final paperwork so Linnea is officially our daughter ! It took all of 30 minutes to finish at 8:30am this morning(11/13). Then we headed back to the hotel for some family time.
Nanjing is a beautiful city and our hotel The Mandarin Garden Hotel is roughly in the center of it. We are able to head out the front door of our hotel and walk through a huge walking market place with many stores and restaurants to look at on street level. There are few bikes and no cars so it is a relaxing stroll. Our guide said it is safe for us to walk around it until 11:00 pm at night so we will probably take Linnea there often. Today our guide showed us where a local supermarket is so we could buy inexpensive water and snacks and not pay extra at the hotel. She walked Kyle and I through the market pointing out shops and restaurants. Along the way we had many people pointing at Kyle so he went into "hood" mode in hopes of hiding from all of the attention. Linda our guide assured him that all of the people were commenting how cute he is. On the way we reached a square right by the river that had a huge money tree completely covered in gold leaves. Also there is a bridge that crosses the river there and on the wall across the way are two huge gold dragons above boats that you can take down the river. Linda said it is even more beautiful when it's lit up at night so we will check it out in the next few nights. After crossing the bridge we entered the market. It was 4 levels high with the supermarket on the top two levels. You even can take your shopping cart on the flat escalators between levels(the shopping cart wheels lock so you don't have to worry about losing it.) In the fresh area Linda showed Kyle all of the live items available. First we saw various kinds of fish and crab. Then we turned the corner and there was a huge bin of live eels and above them were four bins of live frogs climbing all over each other(they were huge 4-5") below them were turtles "for turtle soup" Linda said. We purchased our snacks and drinks and headed back to the hotel.
After we got back we went to lunch at The Burger King in our hotel. We have found most of the food in our hotel to be a little off from our tastes. We have tried pizza and burgers here and they did not quite taste right. Also the buffet here includes things like steamed snails and ducks blood so that's why we tried the American menu. So Lu Lu got her first fast food today. At breakfast and lunch we found her to be a chow hound - any food we put in front of her she eats heartily ! She is just like her Ba-Ba(Daddy) ! --Paul
3 comments:
She is BEAUTIFUL! It must feel wonderful to finally hold her in your arms. Congratulations to big brother Kyle too!
She looks so natural in your arms. What a beautiful family you have. Congratulations to all of you!
Yeah!! Finally, this day has been a long day coming. Paul has a look of content in his eyes. Your site seeing sounds very interesting...I am an adventurous eater and I would not eat the things Paul describes...fast food sounds tasty compared. I'm so glad to hear Lu-Lu likes to eat anything, that will help your transition so much!
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