Paperwork Finished!!! for now

We had our appointment this morning at the US consulate in Guangzhou to finish the adoption paperwork and get Gia and Cassie's visas issued.  We pick up the visas tomorrow morning then off to the airport tomorrow night.  We still have to do things like social security cards and US passports when we get back to the states.  But for now we are all set to return home.

This was the only place at the consulate we could take pictures

After we got done at the consulate we went back to Shamian island with another family that was here adopting too.  Erik and Keri are from Seattle.  They have three biological kids and they were adopting their first two here, a 6 year old girl with a malformed foot like Ryan had and a 4 year old boy missing an arm. Here they are at lunch with us today.

And Cassie being bored again

Gia mugging for the camera

We didn't do much else today.  So here are a few random photos:

Gia in her dance outfit - not really.  This was actually taken a couple of days ago. The girls were bored so they pulled up one of her pairs of stretchy pants over her shoulders.  She was happy with it :-)

A really big pair of jeans.  Maybe Yao Ming's

A corporate sign you probably wouldn't see in the states