After the medical exam we went shopping with Ann from Red Thread. Josh Foote made the arrangements since both of us had used her services to deliver care packages to our daughters. Ann met us at the hotel and we took the subway to a wholesale mall.
The mall had 5 or 6 floors and was jam packed with all kinds of little shops from silk dresses to the kind of junk you get at your local Spencer's store here. We've never seen so many cell phone cover places! Ann got us some great deals on silk dresses for the girls.
Emily found a bouncey ball that lit up and had to have it ;o)
One pooped little girl!
After shopping we had a short meeting about departing Guangzhou and went with the entire group to dinner. About 30 of us piled into taxi's and went to Tequila's to enjoy a Mexican dinner.We had a good time chatting and getting to know everyone a little bit.
On the way back to catch a cab we saw the saddest thing. There were some severely disabled men laying in the middle of the sidewalk begging. They were so disabled, their bodies thin and twisted, it was obvious someone had to have put them there becasue they were not capable of getting there themselves. It broke my heart to see and yet again I was so grateful that Emily would never be in a position to be out on the street begging for her survival. China is a beautiful and strange place yet we find ourselves longing to be home and starting our new lives as a family of 3. Three more days and we start the trip home.
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