China Day 3

Today we slept a little later, until around 7:30.  Allee woke up happy and was whispering and playing with her bear for a while, as I was pretending to still be asleep.  We got up and got dressed and went downstairs for breakfast again. She is very good at looking at all the items in the buffet and telling me what she wants.  She picks out a lot of fruits and vegetables.  Although, she has eaten all the foods we have given her so far. We came back to the room and skyped again for a while with the boys and Gramma.  Then we went downstairs to meet our guide.  She gave us some paperwork, as well as some photos of Allee and some of her schoolwork.  Then we went for a short tour.  Instead of going to the church we decided to go to the Tiger Park.  They have several hundred tigers.  They take you in a small bus through the park and then there is a short walking tour.  The walking part was very cold, but it was really neat. I started getting a little queasy on the ride back, but feel better now that I ate something in the room.  We had noodles in the room for lunch.  Allee was playing around, and after a while she started crying again.  She did let me pick her up and hold her though.  Then, after a bit I was able to distract her with nickjr.com.  Thank goodness for the computer and ipad.  They have provided hours of entertainment.  I did bring many dollar store toys, etc., but Allee is already tired of them since we've been so cooped up. Events from later in the day: Back to McDonald's for dinner for everyone except me.  We have been in that McD's 3 nights in a row and are quite the spectacle.  I still feel queasy at times so I'm taking it easy and ate instant oatmeal from home for dinner.  It was wonderful, for real. Walk back over to Walmart.  We got like 8 movies, a fake Barbie for Allee, a coloring book, and a bunch of candy for only $43. (Note to Chris:  We found Avatar, but none of the other movies on your list.  Since they were so inexpensive we picked up several others for you.  Avatar was about $10 because it is a collectors addition.  The rest of the movies were only like 2 or 5 dollars so we figured what the heck and picked some.  We will look for more in Guangzhou.  Send us an email if you want to add anything to your list.)  This time our cashier was really, really sweet and helpful, pulling us over to her checkout she was just opening, and even did offer us a plastic bag!  I have no idea what was up the first day with the bags. We had a small fit before bedtime because Allee did not want to brush her teeth.  She brushed them fine before, but she's starting to not comply quite as well.  Expected.  She sat on the bed and would not lay down.  There was no crying and she laid down on the bed and went to sleep after about 5 minutes.