Nanchang! Day 8-9

Saturday we went to get the supplies for the coming days and took plenty of cash so that we had enough money to pay for everything as China still is mainly a cash society however we noticed much more cash machines which we can access cash from home!
We did mental planning for the day ahead and wrapped gifts and sorted out my head! It was amazing to have a complete day free before Alice came it allowed us to re claim each other after Emily’s SWI visit we also organized laundry to be collected and processed. A bit disappointing considering the cost and that it wasn’t in a whiker basket like last time! The hotel is so well appointed and is about 15 mins from walmart and 6 yuan in a taxi! We meet up with the group for dinner and then an early night we also looked for a room to receive the girls in as we didn’t want to met them in the hotel room and that was great! We found one but since it was a restaurant they wouldn’t hire it out so in the end we used a room in the business centre it was like a huge board room! We also meet a lovely family from Santa Monica Marcia and Cris who were adopting their second child a 4 year old and they have a 4.5 year old their new daughter was a special needs child and they still had waited almost 2 years to receive her!

Day 9 Sunday



We checked out the board room and agreed to meet there at 4 pm as the girls weren’t scheduled to arrive until about 4. we also went for a walk and Aiden got some dvd’s and so did Emily still looking for Dora the explorer!
Will check out Walmart!
Then we went back and sorted out clothes and tried to get sorted and waited and waited! It was all a bit surreal in the end we went down with all the stuff but we had left heaps of stuff behind so in the end we had to get more passport photos done at the civil affairs building on Monday! When they asked us for our passports and money for formula I just about cried as I had left that upstairs! So a mercy dash was made even though I had photocopies etc!
Well it wouldn’t be our family with out it!
Alice was quiet and came easily to us she smelt hot and musty she had just been picked up from her foster mother’s house at 1pm and then bought to the city with 3 other children. 1 went to another hotel and then the two girls came to the Gloria and we were united forever at 4:30 just as we had set up the video camera and still needed another 10 minutes to prepare!
But I was so shocked to see Alice as she had grown so much! She looks like a little girl not the baby in the referral photos! She is very long and has the finest of fingers. Aiden and Emily were so excited that they forgot and fought over her! I suppose it is very great to be loved! She was in shock and never cried at all!
She did once we got to the room only because I picked her up to change her nappy and she peed all over me and I popped her onto the potty and as soon as she had finished she screamed!
Well at handover we did most of the paperwork we would normally have done at the Civil affairs building which was great as it meant that the next day there would be less!
We all went back to our rooms and I removed Alice’s clothes after about an hour and we went down to dinner! I didn’t wash her or her clothes and popped her clothes into a snap lock bag to help retain the smell!
We went down to dinner there were a number of new families there and more coming in over the next day to receive their new children it has been a really emotional day finding out some small information about our latest daughter!
She co sleeps we were told and we popped her into her cot at 9 pm and she is still asleep!
We rang Sandra and Sergio after we received Alice and told them all about her!
She is such a sweetie!