The rest of the pictures!!

The last two days!

We have one more day here in Changsha (thank goodness!!). We are all going stir crazy. Curt is not feeling well and I was not feeling well yesterday (that's why I didn't post). Yesterday we went to the Martyrs Park and to the Silk Factory. It is ridiculously HOT here with a ton of smog. It is so hard to even step outside so we all just hang out in the hotel pretty much. Today we went to the Provincial Museum which was cooler. Tomorrow we leave the hotel in the afternoon and fly to Guangzhou to finish up our paperwork at the U.S. Embassy. We will be able to "safely" go out side and shop for about three days (when we aren't doing "business). The traffic here is really crazy. There would be some major road rage if we drove like they do here but amazingly enough there aren't many accidents. You have to see it to believe it. Cars, buses, people, bikes and scooters all on the same busy road. Even on the side walks (that is why we stay inside a building). They don't stop for people, you just gotta run!!

I am sending more pictures. Sorry for no captions but for dad. We went to Wal-mart and the picture of food is of dried intestines. They eat just about every part of an animal. There meat department is just laid out there for you to grab. GROSS!!!! However, they are so particular in the hotel that you have to wear a cap to swim, hence the pictures of Carissa in a cap. Curt and Ryan had taken theirs off. The smell of the meat department made my stomach turn a bit!!

We thank you for all of your prayers. She is really warming up to us and playing very well. We are teaching her many tricks. She is silly!!

Some of the pictures of the other little girls are Jade and Alyssa. There are three families here in Hunan and we will join up with the other Bethany families tomorrow afternoon. Jade will live in New Jersey and Alyssa will live in Tennessee. She had a Tennessee outfit on yesterday. She is the oldest at 18 months old but the tiniest little thing (and I do mean tiny!!). We got them to take a picture on the steps at our hotel this morning. They are our three spice girls!!

I will type more in a couple of days. Tomorrow we will be packing and traveling to Guanghzou.