Bath time

Today Sarah wanted to take a bath.  She played with her bath toys and washed herself.  Then to our surprise she dunked her head in the water so she could wash her own hair.  Linda and Sarah spend some good quality time after the bath putting lotion on Sarah and sometimes Linda's face.  She only cried twice today.
 
We went for a long walk through town today, Sarah fell asleep after an hour of walking.  I get many looks from the local for carrying a baby on my chest in the baby carrier.  We saw some interesting shops and a market that had meat hanging from hooks, fresh fish that they were killing and black chickens, yes black chickens.  Linda was taking pictures and all of the locals were laughing at her.  You would never see a sight like that in the US with all of the regulations.  3 people had a bathtub size pot filled with all of the chicken organs.  One section had the pig and beef organs, hoofs, snouts and everything else.  They do not waste anything of the animals. 
 
For dinner we went to a small local restaurant that had hot pots.  Ours had shrimp and squid with potatoes and vegetables.  The table has a gas burner in the center and a 10lb propane tank under the table.  The pot sits in the center on the burner and everybody eats from the same pot.  I like that you have all of the 10lb propane tanks under the table and most people are smoking cigarettes.  The food was very good, we also had an order of some vegetable that looks like a cucumber that is 12" in diameter and about 2 feet long, I have no idea what it was, we did see it in the market.  We also had some sort of bread and 3 sodas and the bill was 80 yuan, or about $12 for the 4 of us to eat.  Good food and cheap!
 
Sarah is doing much better with us, I am still on bathroom duty, getting her dressed, bath time etc.  Now with Linda being sick I have to take care of both of them.  Tomorrow we fly to Guangzhou for the last leg of our journey.  Cindy brought us our paperwork today and it has Sarah's story of where she was found.  That made me cry, but she is safe now and has her forever family.  The only problem is her passport was not finished.  It should be done on friday.  Cindy said we can get Sarah on the plane using the "Red Book" stating that she is now our daughter and then Cindy will go back to town to wait for the passport and Fed/Ex it to us in Guangzhou. 
 
Love,
Guy, Linda and Sarah
 
PS.  The picture of Sarah is to show my mother that I can dress my daughter!

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