Then we went to see the Five Goats, a statue commemorating the saving of Buddha by five goats, when he came from the heavens to earth. The city of Guangzhou is also called the City of Five Goats.

Later that afternoon Steve and I took a cab to a government store. Our cabby didn't quite know where to go, we went up and down, back and forth. It made us a little nervous, but we finally got there. They will guarantee their merchandise and give receipts, unlike most all places here. They also don't negotiate unless you pay cash, and then it is just 5%. We went to get a traditional jade bracelet for May Lee. The mothers wear a jade bracelet and then hand it down to their daughter on their wedding day. Many times bracelets are passed down from generation to generation. We also got an authentic porcelain figurine of a Han girl. May Lee is of Han descent, the most common ethnic group. There are 55 different ethnic groups in China, 95% are Han.

Well, for the last couple of days, we have had some adventurous meals. Last night we went back to the same restaurant our group went to, but it was quite a different experience without our guide. She wrote down in Chinese what we wanted to order, so we felt a little more secure of what we might get. Three different times they "tried" to seat us, but we kept getting left. It was really weird, we thought we wouldn't get seated at all. This is a huge restaurant which we didn't see any of this the other night. Our running joke is that they always stick the Americans in the back after bringing them in the back door. There were hundreds of tables, and yes you guessed it, we were the only non-Asians around. They did not speak English at all, which made it that much more fun. While we were waiting to be served, which we also wondered if that would ever happen, a Chinese boy grabbed Graham's hand and pulled her out to "play." There were tanks and baskets of live animals, fish, crabs, eels, frogs, snails, and things I wasn't sure what they were. The boy would open the frog cages and run off. He pulled out the crabs and tried to get Graham with them. Then he started body-slamming the crabs, different ones over and over again.

Coleman said, "Maybe he's tenderizing them!" I noticed the dead things in the tank either sunk to the bottom or floating; we decided not to order seafood...

... Then Lou noticed the fried goose intestines we could order. All this to say our dinner was great. Graham said, "I might actually be full tonight!"

Today our friend, Jarrett, from Florida, joined us for breakfast. He'll get to hang out with us for the next couple of days. He's here on business and could swing in a little visit with us. Steve did a few hours of more adoption paperwork this morning while the kids and I played school to get more homework done. Later we walked all over town and found several electronics malls. The boys were loving it.

They got a few toys and then it was time to get the famous red couch picture. Our hotel has red couches, where it has become a tradition to put all the babies in the group on the red sofa to get a group photo...

... You can imagine how well that goes, especially when May Lee can't even sit up. Poor thing, she fell over several times.

Tonight we took cabs to the Latin Grillhouse. Again we had to take two cabs, but we all made it to the same place! We walk in to a live band singing Latin music and Asian men dressed like cowboys. The food was great! Again the men were in heaven. All the meat on a stick you can eat. They come around with meat on a large skewer and carve the meat for you until you say stop, or in our case motion "no more." They had duck, lamb, beef, chicken, etc. The kids' favorite part was the chocolate fountain. Funkle Jarrett (he's their fake uncle) dared the kids to dip vegetables in the chocolate fountain and eat them, and they took him up on it. Graham ate a chocolate covered cherry tomato and Coleman ate a chocolate covered piece of broccoli! Needless to say, we had a lot of fun. Even May Lee enjoyed it.