Our day in Qingdao

We had a great visit to Qingdao. We made it back to our hotel in Jinan last night and we were all exhausted. I did try to post some pictures but they wouldn't post for some reason. I was not able to visit Cate or Cai's orphanage and never met their foster families, and I don't think I can put into words our experience and do it justice. Our morning yesterday was filled with lots more waiting for paperwork, so when we pulled into a very nice restaurant for lunch, we were all ready for a break. We didn't quite know where we were going and when we went inside, they took us to a private room and it was filled with staff from the orphanage and Kelly's foster parents and their daughter in law and grandson. Everyone was taking pictures and thanking us- Kelly's foster parents gave us two beautiful scrolls that he painted as well as picture albums of Kelly's life there. They toasted to us during the meal and Greg was asked twice to bottoms up his beer with Kelly's foster father- I know, poor thing. He did have to do it standing in front of everyone though. After lunch, we all went to Blue Sky Home. They gave us a tour and it is an amazing place with amazing, wonderful people working there. They all love Kelly very much and told us how kind she is. Kelly cried as we were leaving and it broke our hearts. But even then, she was asked to ride to the train station with her foster family but she wanted to be with us. She is so brave, I can't begin to tell you. And she does everything with a smile. I'm telling you, this is one special little girl. We left the orphanage with arms full of gifts. Pressley and Sophie were given stuffed animals and bags of treats. It was an emotional day to say the least. And we felt like we were leaving with so much more than we had to give them.