Our last Sunday in Beijing!

(Scroll down to read Saturday's post.)

Today was a bittersweet day as we saw the little girl I posted about yesterday leave with her nannies from the orphanage. She is being adopted tomorrow. I couldn't even go downstairs I was sobbing tears of joy and sadness for she didn't understand what was happening. She was so sad I couldn't help but cry. When we went to church today I said an extra prayer for her and all the others. Two of our favourite kids are leaving soon but I am glad it is after we are gone. MacLean and I both are in pics with our favourite little girl who MacLean would love to take home. She understands but it is still sad for her. She does know that she will get adopted. Hopefully the parents will want pics and we can send some through Joyce. I have taken hundreds of pics of the kids. I will send them a CD of all the pics.



We found out today that when you are a foreigner in China you must show your passport to go to church. If you are chinese you can't go to church. It was a great service and MacLean stayed with us in the service. Afterwards we went to a place called Little Italy in the ex-pat area. I ordered a wonderful pizza and prompty spilled MacLean's smoothie all over it and it was ruined. I was and still am ticked about it. Oh well that is life. When we got home we were helping Tina arrange the furniture in her room. Then MacLean and Mike (the volunteer from the US who is here for three months - he was in the picture last night piggybacking MacLean) went down to a playroom for two and a half hours and Tina and I watched the movie called The Holiday. It was a good movie.

MacLean spent most of the afternoon making capes for the kids as you will see in the pics.




I have bought about 15 movies since I have been here at 1.00 per movie. Can't go wrong with that. Then I went down to play until 6pm and then we came up to have dinner, I had left over french fries from lunch and made Mac pasta. After dinner Mac, Mike and I watched a Discovery channel DVD about Sharks in Africa and are currently watching Raising the Mammoth.

I am going to go down and get the last of the laundry out so when I come home I will have very little laundry to do. I have started to sort out the suitcases and try to evenly distribute all the goods so I won't have any overweight luggage! We will see! It was rainy and gross all day today. Nice to have a wee break from the blazing sun and wow what a treat. We all said it seemed cooler today. HAHA it really wasn't there just was no sun and it rained all day. Well off to get laundry and get Mac a shower and organize for our last two and a half days. I will post tomorrow and Tues and then that is it.

I have also included a series of pics that I took of Mac and a severely disabled little girl who cries when I look at her but has become attached to Mac. They are very sweet pics and she is so sweet but has a very large head and spina bifida and really low tone. I am sure that she has some significant delays as well. they are great pics, Enjoy!

I have had some requests to continue posting but I am not sure my life at Grapeview will be as exciting as this has been. Chow for now and have a great day!

Love to all can't wait to see everyone.
Shauna and MacLean xo