Grace Finds a Home

Best line of the day: Our guide David Fu on the size of Tiananmen Square: "It's the largest town square in the world. There is room for 1,000,000 Chinese people. But only enough room for 500,000 Americans." Seems everybody in the world knows about our obesity problem in the USA! Today we ascended the Great Wall of China as it climbed from a valley to a mountain top. As you go up the steep parts, one step is 18 inches high, while the next one may be only 6 inches high. You have to concentrate on where to put your feet or you could be like Humpty Dumpty and fall off the wall. It's an amazing structure, stretching 4,000 miles across China. It's still hard to believe we are actually here experiencing all of this. Our agency, Living Hope Adoption, operates 4 orphanages in China. One of them is within sight of the Great Wall. It houses 44 junior high age kids. They are doing a fantastic work with these children, training them for life, with the hope that some of them will come back and dedicate their life to working in the orphanage. They performed a dance routine for us. As they danced in the courtyard a light snow began to fall. Very cold for us thin-blooded North Carolinians. In the afternoon we went to a place where they make sculpture and jewelry out of jade. I always thought jade only came in green...but we saw white jade, red jade, and yellow jade. In the evening our guide took us to a Chinese Flying Acrobatic show. Kind of like Cirque de Soleil. Amazing tricks combined with a laser show. Tomorrow we leave for the airport at 6:00 am for a 3-hour flight to Ghangzhou. It is near there that we will meet our daughter Grace on Monday!