Trip To The Park

Everywhere you go here, you see a crazy assortment of vehicles: bikes, scooters, buses, carts, homemade wagons...it blows your mind. This was the sight on one of the main drags yesterday. It is not uncommon to see people pulling overloaded carts like this through the streets of Wuhan...

This morning, some of the couples in our group are going to visit a museum. We are tired of riding the bus, so we took an early morning trip to the park right outside our hotel. Every morning between 5am and 6am, you look out the window and see dozens of people dancing, exercising and doing tai chi in the park. Merrilee walked a good distance through the park, letting everyone enjoy the delightful tune from her squeaky shoes. She held hands all the way with daddy...

Right now, mommy is up in the room bonding a little more with Merrilee. This afternoon, while mommy and some friends take the little ones to the hotel play room, daddy is going to try and venture, on his own, to the local laundry to retrieve our clothes. If he doesn't come back...you'll know he didn't make it!

A final thought for today. Every time someone finds out we are from America and from Baltimore, they say "Michael Phelps!" Every Chinese person who can speak English knows his name, and they tell us we should be proud of his eight gold medals. Our adoption agency guide told us yesterday there is a new phrase here in China. It's "You're so Phelps!" which means, "you're so hot," "you're so good," or "you're so golden." We are nowhere near Beijing, but this whole country is alive with the Olympic spirit, and Michael Phelps has made the world a smaller place.