Adoption is Official

So, yesterday, we basically checked Guang Jin out of the orphanage library for a 24 hour test period. Rather than return him, we decided to go ahead and make it official as it is clear he is a keeper.

We brought big sweaty wads of Yuan to the Civil Affairs office for the orphanage donation, notary fee and passport fee.

We also had the great fortune of spending some time with Mama Zhang (pictured below) who is director of and the force behind Guang Jin's orpahanage. She is a powerhouse and really friendly. She brought us more pictures of Guang Jin, a brochure of the orphanage (quite impressive) and a framed chinese opera mask for Guang Jin's room.

We then spent a couple of hours at a beautiful park in Nanjing. Guang Jin appears to be taking to us very well although he clearly has a mind of his own and opinions about many things. Among them is a very strong attachment to his spiderman backpack which he stuffs everything he owns (and some things he doesn't) into. He carries it around despite the fact that he teeters when he walks even without it. With it on, he lurches from side to side.

Our nephew Dan had an unfortunate bought of Mao's Revenge for which a remarkably stern-faced doctor gave him antibiotics, rehydration salts, etc.  From the look on the doctors face, you would assume that Danny either (1) was near dying or (2) smelled bad. Fortunately, neither was even close to true. He is now making a full recovery and just had his first meal in a day and a half.