Day 4

Today was our fourth day in shanghai and we had more paperwork to do so once again we had to get up early. First thing we went straight to the civil affairs office today. After sitting there for about 15 minutes we had to go to an office building where they made the adoption certificates. we thought this would only take about 45 minutes or so but we ended up sitting there for close to three hours. After that was finally over we thought we were done but then we had to sit in a notary for another 30 minutes. If you don't know what any of those places are thats okay i'm not really sure myself. After all that was finally done we went to a mall, It was five stories tall! We ate lunch at the mall then went to a musical instrument store i found a nice red and black acoustic guitar for 20 dollars (things are cheaper in china) I bought it. After that we visited the foster families house. Waiting for us at the house was a reporter to interveiw us about adopting su xue wei ( she has been in newspapers before and the reporters thought it might be good to print follow up articles to tell what became of her). After staying at the Chen's house for a little while we went out to dinner. We thought that they would take us to a small restaurant with just our family and their immediate family. But we pulled up in front of a huge building and they had reserved two large rooms where a large amount of their family members were waiting. They ordered us lots of strange foods There was duck soup witht he whole duck still floating around and shrimp with the eyes still attached. Although the food was strange it was very delicous. When dinner was over we talked more with the family and then came back to the hotel.
Kellan