Friday, April 04, 2008

Today was our last day in Nanjing. I am really ready to leave but we are not heading home, just to Guangzhou. David started the day by getting a hair cut! There was a place really close and it was a full hour, they washed his hair before and after the cut and trimmed his beard. It was only $4.00! He thought the manager cut his hair, and they all seemed amused a big white guy came in. It looks great, better than he gets at home for $20 plus with no wash and no beard trim. Then we headed to the zoo. It was very disappointing. The animal enclosures are so substandard. I know I am used to the Milwaukee zoo which is one of the best in the country, but these are pitiful. The panda enclosures are bad too, you would think they would have nicer areas for their national treasure, but no. We saw the people throwing marshmallows or something into their enclosure too. It was nice for me to see pandas twice though. E was not coping too well with being out and about, so David and I took her back to the hotel for a nap and some quite time. She was really fussy until we got into the hotel and then really settled when we got to our room. I think she has never been out side and it really is sensory overload. We got her to sleep and after an hour the fun began. She started coughing then threw up. This is not new, she does that a few times a day. She threw up on David’s bed, so we had to call housekeeping to remake the bed. I gave her a bath and wrapped her in a towel. As they were changing David’s bed, I laid her on my bed to get her dressed. She peed while wrapped in the towel, so now they have to change my bed too. The women were so nice and thought E was just the funniest and cutest little girl. She was very happy then! Our friend Stu, Mae’s daddy, calls Elizabeth , Eliza-bitsy, because she is so small. Grammy has started calling her Eliza-itsy-betsy. We joke that Elizabeth is such a big name for such a little girl.

Tonight we had a celebration dinner with all the families. It was in one of the hotel restaurants. We dressed Mae, Ji-Jiu (pronounced Jee-Jew) and Eliza-bitsy in matching dresses. The pictures are from her first ride in the back pack at the zoo, yesterday playing with grandpa, tonight after the diner with her girlfriends. The girls really enjoy playing together. Mae and E were in the same orphanage, JiJui came from the other one. We call her the princess, she is so reserved and just watches. Mae is really full of personality and spunk. She takes toys from the others, has a fake cry and a great cheesy grin. We are so upset though; these two great families live so far away. We really have bonded with them and are so close. Mae and her parents live in MA and JiJiu lives in Alaska!

The hotel robe did not come from the big and tall shop.