Nanjing Day 6

See video of James making her laugh at the bottom!

This was the mall I mentioned a couple of times, fancy, fancy!!

Thank goodness, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, but thank goodness that I do not have to write Nanjing Day 7 because at 10 am in the morning we will fly to Guangzhou which is where the US Consulate is. Up til now we have been satisfying the Chinese portion of the adoption and when we got to Guangzhou it will be to satisfy the US side. Basically we will do a medical appointment, apply for her visa and have a swearing in ceremony at the consulate. Once those things are completed we will be able to leave Guangzhou, which we in the adoption community abbreviate as GZ. To say we are all ready to be home is a understatement. At this point it will be a relief just to be in Guangzhou though. We got Rachel's passport today, which was the last thing we were waiting on here.

So today we went to the Ming Tomb here in Nanjing. It was another opportunity to get out and walk around and it was a beautiful day today. We have had 65-80 degree weather here and it will be hotter in the next city we got to. The Ming Tomb located at the foot of Zi Jin Shan (Purple & Golden Mountain) it is a joint burial tomb of the first Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma in Ming Dynasty. Being one of the largest imperial tombs in the ancient times, it has a more than 600 years history. We enjoyed it so much and are very glad we went.

Rachel has just had 24 hours fever free!!! Yeah! She still has this yucky congested cough but she is eating and actually she eats more than Taylor and better than him. She is sleeping good. She is pretty serious most of the time, but she loves to play with James. We are all starting to get more used to each other, and having four in our family and I have noticed positive differences in us all in the last couple of days. Today we purchased a pearl bracelet for Rachel, maybe to have when she gets married one day. We also purchased a rainflower stone (which James called a polished rock), which is something special to Nanjing.