Went to Elena's Orphanage

It was a 3 hour drive one way to Elena's orphanage - I was sooo nervous that Elena might want to go to the nannies and not want to come back to me - but that was not the case - you could tell that we have definitely made a connection with our little girl.

When we arrived at Elena's orphanage - they set off a long strip of fireworks to celebrate Elena coming home to visit. They hung a sign that said Welcome Guo Le Jing Come Back Home again - which they gave to us when we were leaving.

We took lots of pictures:

This is us walking into the building where Elena lived. There were only two rooms of babies that we were able to visit.


This is the Nanny that took care of Elena at her Orphanage.


Here is Elena's crib - this is where she spent her nights from the time she was born til the day she was introduced to us!!


These pictures are of some of Elena's crib mates. We took pictures of all of the babies that were in both of the rooms that they showed us!! It truly looks as though these babies are being well taken care of but now I can tell why they don't roll over. When the babies are in their cribs - they are tucked in so tight that they can only lay on their backs - they go from the crib to the walkers but that is about all we could see. We could definitely tell that Elena's nanny truly interacts with the babies in her room - and Elena is definite proof of that!!












All of these babies are SO adorable - we were told that a group of 9 babies would be joining their families in the next couple of weeks - of course some of the babies that have been matched are in foster care - so we are not sure which of these babies have found a home.

A picture with the Directors and Nannies with all of us!!


The entire experience was very exhusting but we are really glad we did it!

Bobby - we took lots of video of all of the different Motorcycle companies that were located on the way to Elena's orphanage - although - I think they are truly more like scooter distributers - the motorcycles that you and your brother have would run circles around anything they are selling here and I am sure they are twice as loud - we can't wait to show you some of the videos. We miss you both very much!! Love You!