It's been a few days

Sorry loyal blog watchers, it's been a few days since I posted.  An adoption trip isn't a vacation.  Grafting a new member into your family takes time and lots of effort.  We've been working hard at it, and we've turned a corner.

Last I posted was our trip to Paul's province to apply for his passport on Wednesday.  Since then we've had two days in Zhengzhou to spend as we wish.  Yesterday we walked a few blocks down the road to a big shopping mall.  The shoes Paul came to us in smelled terrible and needed to go.  So we found him some new kicks and were on our way.  We did not, however, ge them at the BM Party store.

We spent the afternoon exploring the hotel grounds and running around.

This morning we went to a park with our friends.  Check out the women dancing with swords we found there, they were awesome.

We then ventured to the pool.  Unfortunately I forgot my camera.  Paul loved playing in the kiddie pool with Baba and Brady.

We headed back to the room for a nap, and stayed in the rest of the day.  The boys had fun playing with toys, taking a bath and jumping on the beds.

They even enjoyed some American food room service, which was a nice break from noodles and dumplings three meals a day for the last however many days.

In a related story, we won't be invited back to this hotel any time soon.

Tomorrow we leave for Guangzhou.