Friday, July 6

Today was a free day. Tomorrow Elvin has found the local park where Madi was left by her birth mother. He has arranged for us to hire a driver and is using his day of to take us there. I can't stress enough what a Godsend that Elvin is.

Some events of the day:

Window washers appeared outside our window. We are on the 14th floor of a 28 story building. They were not in a holder, they were just attached to a rope contraption and had a bucket attached to their rope. They were laughing at the crazy American woman who was waving and taking pictures (yes that was me)

We swam again. Madi LOVED it today. I noticed after I took about 50 pictures the other day it says not cameras at the pool so I couldn't take pictures today. She would throw her head all the way underwater and come up laughing hystercially...She loves to splash Dylan using both feet and arms. She really was hysterical and cute. She had both life guards, us and even the very serious security guards laughing out loud.

I took some pictures out in the streets. Remember - where we are right now is different, but I can capture more of Chinese life later this week when we go into the City for our tours..I also took a picture of Lucy's ...We are still living on grill cheese. Thank God that we found it, really, eating is a struggle for us here.

We read a book on our hotel some notable quests are President Nixon, President George Bush Sr. , Queen Elizabeth...We are turly in the most wonderful hotel.