Today we flew to Changsha, capitol of Hunan. We left he hotel at 5:30 am and arrived in Changsha at 10:00. The Dolton hotel is beautiful- and what a site to open the hotel room door and see a crib!!! It almost doesn't seem real. We walked today to a local supermarket and bought formula and rice cereal that Kenli has been eating. We also found a McDonald's that is about a 20 min walk from the hotel. They had fried pies-- in pineapple and green pea flavor.. but Mcdonald's fries are good anywhere. There are alot of street vendors in the area, including one that was selling ducks (that were still quacking). I asked Ira to buy the ducks so we could set them free- but that didn't go over very well. We went to dinner at local resturant to try out traditional, spicy, Hunan food- our last dinner without Kenli. We are apparently very interesting to the local people. Michelle says there are not very many Americans in this area. Two little boys walked up to Ira and said something in Chinese... my interpretation was " did you see that giant"!! The local people in this area don't speak Mandarin or Cantonese, they have their own special dialect, so even our guide sometimes has a hard time communicating. We leave the hotel at 9:30 in the morning to go to the civil affairs building. We are scheduled to get Kenli at 10:30 am and will post pictures as soon as we can. Love, Amy and Ira
Arriving at the Changsha airport
A crib in our room!!!
View from our hotel room window on the 31st floor.
local street vendors
Poor ducks!
meat dept at supermarket
Forgot to add our breakfast menu: Green bean porridge, rice congee, steamed eggs, potato mash porridge, steamed asparagus, sushi, sauteed spagetthi, and had a goldfish swimming in a bowl beside the spagetthi. Interesting!
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