Flying Tigers and Wiggle Worms

Today we ended up going to the Flying Tigers Museum instead of the zoo since it was kinda raining all day. It never got heavy, but it was not exactly the sunnier (haha) weather we had been having. The museum was interesting and it was basically an American history lesson on the side of one of Chongqings many hilly mountain sides in the middle of China. But the best part for all of us was the rice painting. There was an artist who came in and showed us in person how they do them and he had a bunch for us to look at that he had already done. While he was working, he pretty much blocked out the rest of the world and concentrated on his painting. It was amazing to see this white rice paper, come to life in just minutes.

We also got to visit a Chinese Wal Mart today. It was so like a Wal Mart and so unamerican at the same time it was weird. The store took up all the room behind all the front shops, so it was just on the street, plus the basement area, so it was 2 floors altogether. The upstairs seemed to be dedicated to all the grocery supplies, while the downstairs was the rest of the store. So instead of it being a left and right sides, it was upstairs and downstairs. To get downstairs you get on this moving belt. It was a like a cross between the flat belts at airports that you hop on instead of walking and an escalator, but without an stairs and on a slight incline till you reach your destination. The shopping carts are designed to have these little teeth like things that grip onto the belt, so nothing moves while your traveling. And on the sides, there are various items, like tissues, gum, chips, washcloths to pick up along the way. When downstairs, we were thankful to have Michael our tour guide to help with some translation, and still many things got confused. We found some clothes for Megan and a stroller, but failed to find baby orajel or anything of the sort (she said they don't have it) nor could we get contact fluid (try a glasses store she said). I went off on my own trying to see if I could find it, but no such luck. It's interesting to see the differences in a store like Wal Mart, just based on countries.

Once again we hit up the pool with our super fashionable swim caps. In order to use the pool, you need to cover your head, so now we all have these caps that make everyone look silly. Even the kids have to wear them. Megan was falling asleep in the pool, but it seemed to have given her a second wind, because her new name is wiggle worm. She will not sit still. The learning to walk thing is a new hobby and trying to leap, crawl, jump or anything off the bed is the new game. Crawling seems to bore her as she realizes it's pretty useless and will only seem to do it if it's a last resort. She even picked up the telephone on her bed adventure! Tons of laughing and smiling, giggling and cooing little words all day long. Her teeth seem to bother her around 2ish it seems and she gets super fussy, but even then that seems to be it for the day. The top tooth is going to break through any second now.
I went for a massage and Teresa is currently getting one. It took Megan almost 40 minutes after Teresa left to stop jumping around and fall asleep. Hopefully she will sleep all night though.

Tomorrow is our last day in Chongqing, so lots of packing after we hopefully get to the zoo and Saturday will be Megan's first plane ride. She loves the movement of the bus, so for the ear-popping aspect of this hopefully she will enjoy the plane ride. It is only about 2hours to Guangzhou so this will be the test, before we take the really long one home.

There are new pictures up, including the official adoption day, just hanging out and the rice artist. Enjoy them by clicking here!