1836 - shoes
1839 - tea cups
3796 - scorpions
Our Return to China
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Random thoughts
Another thing that has been tons of fun is noticing faulty translations. We should have kept writing as we saw them but here are a few we have seen this past few days: Slip carefully
Travelers troop together this way>
Internet assecc
Musical dry fountain!
There are always someone blessing you wherever you are.
T-shirt which read Coco is my good no good moing. (Cami bought this one because she loves cocoa.)
Bancon(bacon)
Saussage (sausage)
Things we loved:
Polite sayings:
Captain of airplane: we cherish the opportunity to serve you.
Everyone always wishes you a pleasant journey and a happy family.
Our guides always say Yah after each sentence...meaning like you understand?
One guide could not say R sound. Every time he wanted to gather our group (daisy group) he would say very loudly DAISY GLOOP! We loved it!
The guides also would say, breakfirst instead of breakfast
Big puffy down comforters
Some foods we will not miss:
Pork organs or tongues
anything slimy we cannot recognize
Brown rubbery egg preserved in soy brine
Any noodles for a while
Airplane food in general
Lip-numbing spicy food
Anything with eyes looking at you
Dumplings with unknown contents
Fishy things
Snakes and little bugs(Lynea only)
Foods we will miss:
Chinese yogurt
Coconut palm juice
Lemon soda
Roasted crunchy salty peanuts
Things we will not miss:
Crazy traffic and streets
Smells of the streets
Chinese breath
70% plus humidity
Airplanes
Things we will miss:
Chinese children and babies
Nice 5 star hotels
Not having to prepare breakfast
Lora's Orphanage Visit
Babies in Lora's orphanage |
We saw a few older children up to age 16 but just said hello to them as they watched TV. They let us look at Lora's file and take pictures of any papers we did not have. Only thing I did not recognize was a medical record which might tell us how much she weighed when found and some growth record. Will have to get it translated. Went to a favorite local restaurant with the director which again was a ton of food and some different things. Duck soup with lychee nuts was one of the different things as well as some kind of fish steaks. This area is very near the ocean so lots of seafood. We knew we were going to Lora's finding spot in a very small town next and asked if it was big enough for us to be able to buy some kind of keepsake from her birth place. They said maybe some shells. Then the director said she had a shell at the orphanage she would like to give Lora. She gave each of us a pretty peach-colored shell necklace and one to take to another girl who lives in Meridian that we traveled with to adopt Lora. They were adopted the same day from the same orphanage. She welcomed Lora back and said to bring her future family back when she is married.
Longhsan Town market place, Lora's finding place. |
Next drove to Long Shan town about another half hour. Lora was left at the market place of this town. Wow, what a fun and amazing experience to see this place. There were aisle after aisle of vegetables, meats, live chickens being butchered, shells, fish, you name it. Lora just wandered for a while getting a feel for this place which has only been a word on a paper until now. Smells were interesting and just the throngs of people were fun to see.
Fruit common in Dianbai area |
We were surprised at so many people in the middle of the day on a Thursday. At first our driver was not sure how to even get to this town so we were so grateful to have found it and actually get to see the market place! We decided to look through the market for some lasting keepsake of her actual birthplace. We were thinking of something like rice bowls. Our guide and driver asked around and kept searching, and sure enough they found a little shop with lots of rice bowls. Lora was able to get a set of 6 for her future family and we were so delighted to have found them...a perfect end to a great visit!! I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed with gratitude for this whole experience in China. I think it has been all we wanted the girls to have and more!
Beach near our hotel |
After driving back to Zhanjiang the guide took us to the beach, just a mile from our Hotel. I knew we were close to the ocean when we went there before but did not realize it was that close. We walked along the beach and the girls collected some shells we hope customs lets them bring home. Very beautiful plants in park there at the beach. The girls even got to see a Chinese wedding taking place on the beach. Off to Guangzhou tomorrow.
More pictures room the 27th
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