Introducing our daughter......

Name: Sun Huai Ping (孙怀平), now Anna M. D.
Birthday: 02/01/2006 (2006年2月1日)
Located: Hangzhou Children's Welfare Institute (浙江省杭州儿童福利院)
http://journeytomyanna.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-got-daughter_5054.html

Timeline
05/05/2008: Applied with Adoption Agency #1
08/25/2008: Switched to Adoption Agency #2
09/17/2008: Referral! - Connected with little Anna
09/18/2008: LOI; 09/23/2008: PA; 10/23/2008: I-800A approved;
10/31/2008: DTC; 11/07/2008: LID!!!
02/09/2009: LOA!!!!!; 03/16/2009: TA ;
03/23/2009: Gotcha Day; 04/01/2009: CA; 04/03/2009: Home

China Adoption Acronyms:
LID - Log in Date; DTC - Dossier to China
SN - special needs; NSN - non special needs
LOI - Letter of Intent (used in the SN process)
LOA - Letter of Acceptance, the document that allows you to officially accept a referral;
TA - Travel Approval; CA -Consulate Appointment

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Day 12: Consulate appoinment, sightseeing, and Red Couch pictures









































今天,我们的向导带着所有的签证材料自己去了领事馆。并告诉我们留在酒店,以备万一。大约上午11点,他打电话告诉我们可以出去玩了。我们去了越秀公园。首先租船划了一小时,然后步行到不同的地方。公园里还有两个主题公园,Anna非常喜欢坐各种游乐设施。这是她第一次做过山车,她太高兴了,不想离开。公园非常大,我们玩了5个小时, 连一半都没走完。莉娅极力主张到Lucy's吃美国饭。她点了比萨饼, casadia和炸薯条。安娜吃得也很开心。安娜还是很能吃,但已不象头几天那样饭量惊人。晚饭后,我们都穿着中国传统服装到白天鹅大酒店照“红沙发”照片。“红沙发”照片是领养家庭的传统程序。十几年来,一直这样延续下来。
Today, our guide brought all of our visa documents to the consulate by himself. He told us to stay in the hotel until everything was OK at the consulate. He called us at about 11am and told us that we could go out for sightseeing. We went to Yuexiu park and had a lot of fun. We first rented a boat and paddled for an hour and then wandered around. There are two amusement parks in the park, which Anna enjoyed very much. It was her first time on such rides, and she was so excited that she didn't want to leave. The park was huge and we didn't even finish walking through half of the park by the time we had to leave for dinner. Leah really wanted some American food, so we went to dinner at Lucy's. She had pizza and french fries. Anna also enjoyed eating at Lucy's. Anna still eats a lot, but not as much as she did in the first few days. We all dressed up in traditional Chinese outfits after dinner and went to the White Swan Hotel to take the "Red Couch" photos, as every adoptive family does.

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