July 18th 2007-Embroidery museum/University tour
We started our day at around 5:30am. I showered and the girls were up soon after. We all painted our nails pink this morning. Gracie acted like she had done it before or she just wanted us to do to her what we were doing to our nails. We all looked great. We had another good breakfast and then met Susan to begin our morning of touring. We went to the embroidery museum. The embroidery pieces were really amazing. We also saw many of the women working on pieces. Some pieces can take a year to finish. They can look at a picture of something and copy it with embroidery. We bought a small piece as this is unique for the Hunan province and we wanted it for Gracie. We then went to the other side of the Jangtze River. This river divides the city of Changsha into the commerce side and the educational side. We headed to the educational side the the University of Changsa. Very interesting place. It was extremely hot and Hannah was a bit tired at this point and the heat was making Gracie very itchy. We finished the tour with popsicles and this made them both feel better. Once back at the hotel they played together for a good while. Gracie tries to say more in English. She repeated bunny rabbit for me when she pointed to the picture. Hannah and Gracie sat and watched some story book CD's on the computer. Gracie seemed to enjoy them but I doubt she could understand but they were cartoons. We ate lunch in the room and headed to the playroom. Gracie's roommate Wen Xian was there also. Hannnah had fixed her own hair with clippies, put on gymshoes and said she was a cheerleader and did many cheers for us. Gracie tried to take a toy from Wen Xian and I took it back and she cried and cried. I picked her up and she went to sleep. We came back to the room at 5:00 pm and she is still sleeping at 9:20pm. She is quite the sleeper. Hannah is also asleep. I guess they are down for the night. Tomorrow is the orphanage visit. I wonder how Gracie will do there. I hope she doesn't get upset about being there again. It is about a 1 1/2 hour ride each way and the air conditioning in the van is not that great. I guess we'll make it. Friday late afternoon we fly to Guangzhou-finally. It was just too hot to take the girls back out today to explore. Maybe tomorrow. Here are the pics from today.