Free Day #1 and trip to the Yellow river and Park

At the park, all these ladies said that Emma was very beautiful and very lucky girl. They all wanted to hold her.

We were walking outside the hotel tonight to tire Emma out (She is starting to show some of her personality, probably from her older foster brother.)

She also knows how to blow raspberries.

The Yellow River is Behind us (2nd largest in China) .
Here we are with the Cynthia, Joy, and Craig Dorroh. We are travel group #1385
This is one of the modes of traveling down the Yellow river, can you guess what they are?
This is part of the entrance to the park we visited today. The horse is famous in Gansu, and the original was found many years ago. We will learn more about it tomorrow at a museum.
Newest Employee at E&J Sprinkler. I need to start them and train them young.

We went to see the Yellow River today, and saw lots of tourists there enjoying the sites and hype for the 2008 Olympics. Of course we were the only caucasion people, so we were quite the attraction ourselves. We had lots of pictures taken of us and the babies and took lots of our own. There were also people exercising, playing music, and singing songs. Emma really likes music and starts rocking back and forth when she hears something familiar.

We spent some time at a park walking around enjoying some of the smoggy, sunny day. Lanzhou has 3 million people (small according to our guide,) and lots of "industry" chemical plants, mining, factories, and some kind of memory chip/computer plant. We all have dry scratchy throats. Mainly retired people, tourists, all watching us and us watching them. There was also some group of younger 20 something doing team building exercise. There was two lines of them with their hands grasped across each other. The leader and another member was standing above them and he would push the other off into the hands of the others and they would surf the person to the end of the line.

Emma is slowly opening up and letting Jenn get closer and closer. We decided that she would be the only one to feed her while she sits with Eric. So far so good and she will let Jenn touch her without crying. She does much better and expresses her self more when we are out and about. So we have a new strategy for attaching. She does have a hard time waking up after a nap or bedtime, and seeing that we are still around, but will slowly open up.

Better get ready for bed, and will post more tomorrow.

The raft above was made from sheep skins.

Eric, Jenn, Emma, and Evelyn

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