Guangzhou

U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou's adoptions unit issues all immigrant visas to adopted orphans from mainland China - which explains why, as we've mentioned before, there are a lot of other people adopting staying around us. Its still rare to have a little boy. We have some clothes for Tommy, but he's so active he's absolutely filthy by the end of the day, we needed more. We went into some of the shops, and they have the most adorable clothes, but they're all for little girls or babies.

There is a Starbucks right around the corner from the hotel and by Sunday we gave in. I can't drink the coffee here but Starbucks tastes just like home. Tommy loved his chocolate milk.



I keep forgetting to send a picture of the squatting toilets! They're everywhere in China. If you want a western toilet you better use the one in your hotel room or you are out of luck. Basically its just a toilet in the floor that you squat over. I found out the hard way that many of them don't have toilet paper either. Now I always make sure to have some in my purse but that's also a problem because people miss the toilet and the floor is always wet so you don't want to put your purse down. (And rarely do you find a purse hook.)