Today we have a ton of paperwork at the Civil Affairs Office.
We woke up super early because our bodies are still on TN time. Melanie, however, slept ten hours. Before going to the civil affairs office, we Skyped with G, PaPa, and Cohen and YaYa and PaPa. This was the first day they saw Melanie. Cohen was so excited...he tried to make her laugh.
Today was a super rainy day. We answered our interview questions with the register and signed our papers with the red thumbprints. We then met the notary to finish our papers. We received some important papers and her immunization records, which are in Chinese. We gave our two gifts to the register and the notary. Yesterday, we gave the gifts to the orphanage workers and director. All of our gifts to them were made in TN...candies and foods.
After our appointment we went shopping. Nanjing is famous for their carving skills and stones. We went to two locations looking at their red stone and jade. We purchased two gifts for Melanie...one for her 16th or 18th birthday and one for her wedding day.
After we returned back to the hotel, we grabbed naps. Melanie did not want to eat and had a hard time napping.
Then we headed to McDonalds and KFC. We are finding that Melanie is very picky with her eating right now. She does not like anything spicy or with seasoning. So we got a huge variety of food to try...hamburger, chicken nuggets, veggie soup, rice, mashed potatoes and gravy and warm soy milk. So she loved the chicken nuggets without the breading, carrots from the soup, potatoes without gravy, rice, and the warm soy milk.
Well because of our long naps, we could not sleep. Melanie was up late because she would not sleep. Jason crashed and so Melanie and I looked at magazines. When I would turn a page, she would turn a page. She loves to mimic everything we do. So Melanie finally crashed in our bed and literally kicked us out of our bed. We could not sleep so we stayed up all night chatting in the sitting room!
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