Day 2 in China

After Wu Yi's tearful morning call to her "grandma", we headed to the Civil Affairs Office to finalize the adoption.  When we arrived, the office was crowded with 3 families who had just received their toddlers!  It was a happy occasion for all of them!  Not so for us.  Because of the tearful phone calls, Wu Yi's "grandma" decided it would be best if she didn't come to the office for the ceremony.  The other woman from the orphanage (who Wu Yi is also close to) was there and told her that "grandma" had to go back to the orphanage to help with the kids.  Wu Yi was completely distraught over this and it was very hard for me to not start crying as well.  A few minutes after we arrived, we were ushered in for a presentation of gifts to us and had to pose for 3 different photographers as we were formally offered Wu Yi as our daughter.  The photos show Wu Yi and me with tears of sadness streaming down our faces. The other American families looked on with sympathy and I was grateful as one of them patted me on the back as we quickly left.  As Wu Yi tried to cling to the other orphange woman, she was told that if she stopped crying, all of her friends and nannies would come to America to visit her.  With this news, Wu Yi reluctantly left with Wendy and us.
Wendy then took us to do some local sightseeing.  She encouraged Wu Yi to hold my hand although she was reluctant to do so and looked at me like I was the enemy.  She would only hold my hand if Wendy could hold her other hand.  We went to a local park, about a 10 minute walk from our hotel, called Qianling Mountain Park.  Guiyang is surrounded by mountainous jungle, and this park is at the base of it.  Although only a short walk away, the air pollution makes it difficult to impossible to see these mountains from our 20th floor hotel room.  The park was very fun with carnival rides and lots of beautiful ponds and trees.  Its close proximity to the jungle means it also has alot of monkeys running wild through it!  It was fun to watch them running around and climbing on the rides and eating food being offered to them.  They also know how to take food from people, which our guide Wendy found out the hard way when one particularly big monkey attacked her to take Wu Yi's juice bottle out of her hand!  This brazen creature promptly unscrewed the cap and downed the strawberry drink before throwing it down to go after other food.  Wu Yi enjoyed watching the monkeys until her juice was stolen, and then she was just tearful again.
We returned to the hotel and Wu Yi asked to use the phone.  She came with a mini phone book full of phone numbers of all the nannies ~ most of which she had memorized.  WACAP told us to expect this with the older kids and suggested we let her make as many phone calls as she wanted.  She spent the next 3 hours on the phone, calling every one of them.  Wendy sat near her during the calls and intermittently translated for us.  She happily laughed and chatted with her friends (including Eva).  There are a total of 24 kids at the orphanage, most of them special needs.  When she called her "grandma" she immediately started sobbing and yelling "take me home" over and over.  She is being told that she has a new home and that she will be flying on a plane to her new home in 5 days.  (Actually, we are just flying to another city in 5 days, but little white lies seem to be the norm right now).  She was also told again, that if she stopped crying, she would be visited in the US by Eva and the nannies.  Wendy helped us download the China version of Skype which is called "QQ".  We are hoping to be able to "QQ" with the orphanage starting tomorrow.  I hope that works!  It will be fun to see her friends and will save us the cost of phone calls! 
We were hoping to visit the orphanage while here and asked Wendy if she could arrange it for us.  When she asked the Civil Affairs Office, they told her we couldn't, but the orphanage ladies overheard and whispered to her that we were welcome to come visit and that they could help arrange the 4 hour round trip travel.  We were planning to go on Thursday, but considering the depth of Wu Yi's grief, I now think it is not a good idea.  Wendy told us that one of us could go alone, but that seems too long for either of us to be gone.  Don and I are really relying on each other to get through each day.  Plus, the orphanage ladies provided us with some nice photos and returned the disposable cameras we sent with pictures they had taken.  With phone numbers, email addresses and QQ, we should get any information about the orphanage that we want.  My impression of the orphanage is that it is a very happy and loving place and I am so grateful!