Orphanage Visit

What an emotional day yesterday. I knew it was going to be full of emotions visiting the orphanage but the finding spot really hit home. We started off our day with the orphanage visit. The Nanny's at Foshan S.W.I are just soooooo loving. You can really see that she was well taken care of. It was neat to see her in the nanny's arms and then to see her little crib. Her name was still labeled on the crib so we took a picture of it. She spent sometime playing with the other kids in the orphanage and then one of the Nanny's gave her a plastic ball from the ball bin in the playroom (what a keepsake). We got lots and lots of pictures (Foshan yahoo gang - got all your pics but can't seem to send emails) Try emailing me at debbie.ingram@sympatico.ca and I'll see if I can reply to them.

The afternoon was spent visiting the finding spots. Olivia's was the first one closest to the orphanage. She was left in a flower market in an area with lots of locals. Just walking up to the spot made me break down. I couldn't imagine her birth mom having to do that walk and actually leave her, it just breaks our hearts. We bought some flowers from the market lady and I broke down again. She wanted 15 yuan and we gave her 100yuan. You should have seen the excitement, it was like she won the lottery. Our hearts were just aching and we couldn't dare ask for change. She ran in the market and screamed out to everyone what just happened. Everyone in our group now thinks it is going to spread through the town about the caucasion couple who gave her a huge tip and has a Chinese baby. If that birth mom finds out that Olivia has a home - WHAT A GIFT!!! Our hearts are still dropped at all the emotions. I can't explain in words what yesterday meant to us. Anyone who is doing this trip after us, make sure you do your finding spot if nothing else. I'm telling you it is a gift beyond words!

Here's a couple pics from our day. As you can see in the finding spot family pic, we were full of tears and couldn't get a smile out.