Well it has been and busy and interesting couple of days. We flew to Nanchang on Sunday, it was about a 2 hour flight and mostly bumpy-I think I am due some smooth flights!!! It is a little cooler but still very humid in Nanchang. Nanchang is mostly an industrial city, surrounded by mountains, and farm land (mostly rice). The farm land is mostly where these children are from, and Darci’s orphanage is about 3 hours from Nanchang. Once we arrived in Nanchang (there are 6 families that traveled here) we were brought to the hotel to unwind (like that was really going to happen). At around 3:45pm we headed over to the civil building where the babies were being brought to by the orphanage directors. 4 of the families were receiving their children from one orphanage and me and another couple were receiving our children from a different orphanage. We walked from our hotel to the civil building by crossing a busy street. While that might sound easy, it was not!! The Chinese may have traffic laws but I really think that they might be suggestions and not laws!!! Once we got to the civil building we went to the large room where the babies from the first orphanage (not Darci’s orphanage) were waiting. There were a lot of tears and scared children in that room!! After about 45 minutes we found out that the van carrying Darci was an hour away. So back we went to the hotel, crossing that busy street to wait a little longer. We went to our room and about 1 hour later we received a call to come to a conference room in the hotel. As I was walking down the hall I heard a child crying and she has not stopped much since then!!! Actually they handed her to me and she was very scared and tearful. We stayed in that room a while and then went upstairs to our room. She cried most of that evening but there were a couple of moments when we actually got her to smile!!! Bedtime was not too bad, she would not lay down so she fell asleep sitting down in her crib, I eventually was able to lay her down and she slept all night until 6am. Today we went back to the civil building (luckily we all got in a van and did not have to cross that busy street) and did some paper work. Darci cried most of the time there but once we got back in the van she quieted down. We then headed to the notary and some more crying and then eventually to WalMart-where she was quite content!! We are now back in the room resting quietly!! OK that would not be true-she just woke up, so a little crying is in order!! Leave it to the pediatric nurse to have the irritable child and no drugs!!!! Well I best sign off for now.
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