Well today is our sweet girls 1st birthday!!! It is also our last day in beautiful Chongqing! Tomorrow we head out to Guangzhou!
We had a little meeting and Lina showed 2 powerpoint videos that she had made up of all of the girls. We were all in tears! After that, Fred stayed with one parent from each family to fill out more paperwork. Hope and I went back up to the room to take a nap!
We were all meeting for dinner around 5:30. We were going to have Hot Pot! Getting there would be half the adventure! We got part of our group off in a taxi, but no other taxi's wanted to take us. Our travel guide was trying to get us all a good rate, so after she told them what we were going to pay, they would then tell her they didn't know where the place was. So we decided to all walk! It was about a 20 minute walk there, but it was nice to see more of Chongqing.
When we got there, they sat us around a table that had a round pot in the middle and in the middle of that pot is another pot with HOT spices and broth. Then they set out all kinds of meats and veggies to put in the pots. You let them cook for just a little bit, then you eat!!! They also had rice as well! It was very good and we enjoyed it alot! Fred was the hot pot champ! He ate a lot from the real spicy pot!!!!! Everyone was impressed!
After that, the Happy Birthday song started to play. The entire place started singing to these little girls who had never had such a grand party and deal made about them. CHI had a cake with each of the girls names on it for us to have! It was delicious!!! Hope loved playing in the icing! We had a great time!
We all managed to find taxis to take us back to the hotel! We got back and had to start packing for the first airplane trip for these girls to Guangzhou! Our bags had to be ready to be picked up by 8:00 am, then we had to be ready to leave by 9:20 for the airport!
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