Tuesday, January 19, 2010
IT'S OFFICIAL!!

Chen Chensi is now Tia Kate Chensi Hollinger. Our entire group boarded the bus again this morning to go back to the civil affairs office. We are required to meet with the adoption officials and complete more paperwork. Tia had to participate by stamping her foot in red ink on the form. She didn’t appreciate that too much. We are now waiting for Tia’s passport to be processed.

Tia has been doing great! She slept all night our first night together. She’s been eating well and showing us bits of her personality. We expect to see more a more as she becomes more comfortable with us.

After our long meeting this morning we went to the Changsha City Walmart. That is a unique experience that you would only understand if you experience it yourself. Even though it is a Walmart, it is 100% Chinese. The things they sell are very different than Walmart in the States. Shawn and I talked to a lady from the US that lives in Changsha . She said that she almost never sees westerners so she wanted to find out where we were from.

As we were driving back to our hotel we took a picture of the local dentist office. Check it out! I’m hoping that I don’t have any emergency dental work in the next few days.

We have a free day tomorrow. We’ll have to see what adventures are waiting for us!

We miss you all. Email is very slow so we haven’t been sending email except for the website updates.