Blog Post From Mom in China #3 -Completing the Adoption

This morning, Kacee awoke around 7:15.  She slept about 9.5 hours.  We went to breakfast and then met our guide to go back to the Civil Affairs office to complete the adoption.  Everything went smoothly; I was worried that I   might have forgotten something, but I had all of the required papers.  Kacee's adoption is now official, and she is a part of our family legally.  She has been a part of our family for almost a year - since we began the adoption process, but now it is official.  We were given some gifts by the orphanage - a photo album and necklace.  The Civil affairs director also gave us a gift - a Miao doll (Miao is an ethnic minority people group in China).  The orphanage director also gave me a stick drive with about 50 pictures of Kacee.  After the Civil Affairs office, we went to a famous local park, Qianling Mountain Park.  We rode cable cars up to the top of the mountain where monkeys are freely roaming around.  This is the highest point of Guiyang City.  Even though we took the cable car to the top of the mountain, we had to walk down some steps to visit a Buddhist temple.  Walking down was not so bad, it was the walking up that was hard!!!  We cam back to the hotel room, and let Kacee take a nap.  Then we put her in the stroller and pushed her around outside along the river and to Wal-Mart.  I am so glad that Wal-Mart is right across the street from the hotel since that makes it easy to get supplies.  Tomorrow we are going to another park, but our guide, Mary, says that it is easier to walk around - not as many steps.