Monday was a pretty mellow day in Guangzhou. Sweating through a few more shirts, we shopped in the early morning after breakfast. Then we hung out in the room while our guide took our documents and last big payment (whew! Okay--I think we're officially broke, now!) to the US Consulate to submit for M.'s US Visa. Everything was fine!
Then it was off to the "Red Couch." Every adoption group that comes through the White Swan finishes with the famous "Red Couch Photo." Children are usually dressed in traditional garb and pictures are taken of the individual families on the Red Couch. Then the kids from the group are all placed on the couch. Finally the whole group gets their pics taken.
We've seen bunches of these shots following other blogs. There are ALWAYS squirming and/or crying children. Cute. Of course (!) ours would be the one doing the fussing and squirming in this group shot. :-) We're not quite sure what happened between our family photo and the group shot. Toddlers.
We really like the group picture. They were such neat families. We got to know all of them a little "on-line" prior to the trip and have enjoyed spending time with them in Beijing and Guangzhou. We all got our pic taken together at the Great Wall--before Gotcha day. It will be neat to have each picture side by side--before and after. The two beautiful girls in the front row and their brother (in the black and gold) were with us in our Changsha. A really special family!
