Quick Post

Just a quick post since it will be an early night.

We went to an old part of Chongqing today to do some shopping

The Chinese often use some sign language when they are selling goods denoting numbers. Our guide showed us these yesterday. As we were walking through this market, a guy noticed us practicing our number signs and wanted to practice counting in English. We did for a while and he read our card which says we are adopting Josh, blah blah blah. He then wanted to hold Josh. Sure. We needed to get back to the bus so we told him we had to leave, but he wanted to carry Josh back with us. We let that go for a little before I just grabbed Josh back and said "we gotta go". He was harmless, but hey, that's MY boy.


Here are some more pictures of Chongqing. The city is huge and tall buildings go on for miles. The river is the Yangtze, 4th largest in the world.

We have to meet again at 3:30 to do some more paperwork and get Josh's visa and passport. We then need to have our luggage ready for pick-up at 9:30. It's bright and early tomorrow as we leave the hotel at 5:30am for Guangzhou, our last stop. We'll be in Guangzhou for 8 more days as we wait for our appointment at the American Consulate. From everything we hear, Guangzhou is very nice and the area we stay in used to be part of an English territory so it is a little more "westerner" friendly.

On a side note, it's fun to see everyone in the group get along so well. If someone doesn't have something, like a medicine, someone else will readily donate it. We will randomly go to meals together if we happen to see others going out and leaving our doors open so others can just walk in for play dates. We're in the process of gathering each other's info so we can keep in contact after we disperse throughout the US.

We're 2 for 2 on internet access so far so we'll try to get up and running again tomorrow. Until then,

Matt, Jenny, and Josh