hello blog readers, alana has had a very nice morning at the police station today. you see, we obtained her official chinese passport! they issue them at the police stations. much more of a proffesional and organized place compared with the chinese adoption authority. they dont like it when you take pictures tho as this freaked out the guard that was on duty in front of the entrance. he started yelling at one of the moms in our group for taking a pic! yikes. everyone on the bus! then we spent a few hours on "porcelain street" picking out, dustables. mummy was very happy and daddy was very impressed with the workmanship and prices(cheap!). there are 4 qualities for buying porcelain, 1) it must be white as jade, the best jade is white 2) it must be thin like paper 3) it must sing like a chime and i forget the fourth one. i'll update later. everyone is doing much better and the colds are almost gone. thank god. we have made it thru the first week very well and alana is just an angel. she eats 5, 8 ounce, bottles a day plus whatever snacks we might put in front of her. except for fruits, yucky. baby mummums are a big hit. especially when sharing with mummy. we got a message from carol's dad wishing her a happy birthday and i know there was a phone call from someone but we were out cold at 8 last night. sorry. i do access my email account if anyone wants to send a message jimspyridakis(at)gmail(dot)com.
so our time in Nanchang has come to an end and we will be leaving for Beijing in the morning and my next entry should be from there. at least our baggage limit will double. let the shopping begin!