Day 10 - The Wedding Planner

If you’ve ever seen the movie with this title, you might understand our total appreciation for our in-country adoption agency representative, Jason (his American name).  Jason is a 30 something Chinese man who has worked for Chinese Children Adoption International here in Guangzhou for 8 ½ years, during which time he has been part of over 2,200 babies being adopted and taken home to the States. 

Jason is on top of every detail.  Our itinerary has everything from sightseeing to meetings (yesterday, he helped each family complete our last stack of paperwork line by line for 1 ½ hours).  He translates, delivers documents, takes us to get visa photos and baby formula, walks with us to the doctor, makes dinner reservations, orders food, lets us know the weather report (in Fahrenheit)….  Basically, he is taking care of all of the logistics, and at the same time is so very caring about how we’re doing.  He is always making sure that our babies are doing OK – eating, sleeping- he holds the babies, speaks soothing Chinese to them, and is more than we ever could have asked for in someone to help us while we’re in China.

Today, he took us shopping.  These pictures are from our outing to this very popular area called The Pearl Market.  “Market” isn’t the word I would use, more like “Metropolis.”  The pearl part of this incredible shopping area was really an entire 5 story mall with hundreds of stores all selling jewelry, most of it in the form of strands of stones, gems, or pearls, ready to be made into different  pieces, which they do on the spot.  Daddy did what daddies do – he took his girls shopping and out to lunch at McDonald’s (there were two 2-story McDonald’s directly across from each other there).

While we wait for important things like Evian’s passport and visa, we’re having a good time together!

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