Orphanage visit

Today was a very full day. Our guide Susan hired a car for us to go down to Zhangshu City and visit Katelyn's orphanage. It was about an hour and a half south of Nanchang and the drive was beautiful. Very green and lush. It's a more rural, farming area. We are so glad that we got to go. It was good for us to see where Katelyn had lived for her first 10 months and meet the people who had taken care of her. The tiny lady to the left of me in the picture below was Katelyn's primary nanny. It was obvious that Katelyn liked her...she smiled at her and kept looking at her. I was a little worried that the baby would freak out when it was time for us to leave, but she didn't. No tears at all. We were so thankful that it wasn't a tramatic experience for her. The assistant director and the person in charge of the children at the social welfare institute (they have 20 children and 90 senior citizens at this institution) is the lady in the pink sweater and the man to the left of Josh is the orphanage director. He made me laugh. They were so kind to us and allowed us to see a couple of the other babies of families that are waiting to travel. We were so happy to do that for others because getting the pictures and videos of Katelyn before we traveled made it bearable for us to wait those last couple of weeks. We drove around Zhangshu City and got lots of video footage of the area. We're thankful we'll be able to show Katelyn when she gets older. The area she is from is famous for Chinese herbs and also some type of wine. Driving around the city, we saw just how poor a community this was. The area around the city was just beautiful. Lots of people working hard in the rice paddys.