Visiting Emily's Orphanage and a trip to the Doctor

Today we visited Emily's Orphanage. It was different than Kaitlyn's. In the first place, Emily did not have one particular Nanny that took care of her. The second was that the Director was there when she was adopted. He was the vice-director at the time. It was the same in the sense that everyone was glad to see her.

Gaoyou is famous for a few things. One is being a main stop on the old postal road centuries ago. Several Chinese stamps have been created to commemorate this. Here is the director giving Emily a book describing the town and containing all of the stamps.


One of the questions we wanted answered was about her finding spot. We had gotten a couple of different places and dates of when she was found, in the various documentation we received. It turns out that she was found outside the gate of the orphanage. Below is a photo of Emily with the person that found her.

We were able to tour the facilities a little bit. All of the kids in the orphanage are special needs kids, just like at Kaitlyn's. Emily handed out some suckers to all of the children and surprisingly, we were allowed to take some pictures.

This the gate where Emily was found.

Kaitlyn has been bitten by several mosquitos. We are not sure if one was different or if it was because she scratched at it and made it bleed, or what, but one of them on her ankle started to swell. By yesterday afternoon her ankle had swelled up pretty good and was turning red. So we decided a trip to the doctor was necessary.

We contacted the tour guide to help us, grabbed all of our money and headed out in a taxi, expecting a long wait. However, we got right in to see the doctor. He did some examining, asked a couple of questions (with the guide translating) and came to the same conclusion as Kirsten and I. It was an infection. He prescribed some antibiotics which we were able to purchase right there. Total time for the whole trip, including the taxi ride, about 40 minutes. Total cost for the doctors visit, including the taxi, $7.50.

Here is a cure picture of the girls with couple of the nurses dressed in their pink outfits.


Finally here is a picture of our hotel room form the toilet. The bathroom is seperated from the bedroom by the shower which is encased in glass. There is a curtain that can be pulled for privacy.