Yesterday we visited Lian's orphanage and finding spot. It was a very long and emotional day. The orphanage is a four hour drive from our hotel and we went there and back in one day. Lian did quite well on the bus, with the exception of a minor blowout (no not the bus tire, Lian's diaper). We had to change her clothes and borrow a pair of pants for her from someone in our group (thanks so much Marnie). Before we went to the orphanage we visited the place where Lian's first mother left her. It was an intersection on a small street. There were quite a few people around when we got there at about 12 in the afternoon. It was quite a poor area of the city. The people looked very surprised to see a bus pull into their neighourhood (not to mention the white people with cameras). The first photo is of us at Lian's finding place. We visited six finding places for children in our group. The rest of the group, unfortunately, could not visit their babies' finding place as they were too far out of the city. We then went to the orphanage. We received a very warm welcome from Mrs. Yu, the orphanage director, and the rest of the staff at the orphanage. It was a very clean place. There were about 20 babies in the orphanage, with about 10 of them being adopted next month to an American agency. Lian wanted to get in one of the cribs at the orphanage so I put her in and she was quite happy. The nannies held Lian for a short time. She was a little hesitant to go to them and then wanted to come back to me. It's amazing to see the transformation in this baby. We know that she was very well taken care of in the orphanage and we can never thank those who took care of her for the past 10 months enough. We gave the orphanage a gift of little girls' clothing which was bought over here. It's amazing how cheap it was so we got quite a lot of outfits.
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