Sunday in Guangzhou

At least I think it's Sunday.  All the days kind of run together.  Whatever day it is, we have had a good one!  We met the other three families with our agency this morning and took a tour of the Chen Clan Academy then visited the zoo before enjoying a delicious lunch.  The entrance to the restaurant featured tanks full of fish and snakes and a chef very carefully skinning the snakes then chopping them to pieces!  We were glad our guides chose chicken and beef for our meal!  We visited the Academy on our last trip, but it was still very impressive the second time.  Carson went there earlier in the week with MM and WW while the rest of us were busy with something else, and he enjoyed his third trip just as much as the first two!  Many of the new pictures are from there.  After we got back to the hotel, we got in touch with some friends from home who are also adopting and arrived in Guangzhou last night.  We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening showing them around the island and enjoying getting to know their new baby.  She is a doll!  Peyton was surprisingly nice to her -- she has a tendency to be very rough!    Right now Peyton is prancing around the room in her fancy red dress, counting in English, and eating bread sticks . . . and forcing Madison and me to eat them too.  She is VERY persuasive!   The rest of us are counting the minutes until bedtime!!