Showing posts with label Gansu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gansu. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Well Fed Lobbyists


This noodle dish came from the breakfast buffet.
It was quite delicious and had "Joshua-level" spiciness.


The noodles are all hand made by this guy, known by everyone as Noodle Man.


Speaking of Feeding:
This is Jackson. Notice that he has no food.
It turns out that he has never had anything but liquids.
The Thompsons and the cleft palate feeding team at VCU have some work to do.
He is used to being fed by lying back and pouring juice or formula into his mouth.
We are feeding him and then going to the restaurant to feed ourselves.

As you can imagine, it gets pretty boring at a restaurant when you are 
three years old and don't have any interest in table foods or the like.
In this photo, Jackson is enjoying playing with a NutraSweet wrapper from Susan's tea.

We have tried giving him finger food but he just tears it up and throws the pieces in the floor.


The elevator is made of mirrors so we can see each other forever.






This is the lobby were we wait for our guides: Steed and Melody



Everyone gets advertisements for Coke.
KFC and Pizza Hut are also hugely popular here.


The JJ Sun Hotel in downtown Lanzhou


Sunday, January 11, 2015

Architecture 101: Stacking Blocks















Here Comes Jackson!




The orphanage folks brought Jackson to Lanzhou from Zhangye on the new high speed train.


We met them at a photo studio so they could take passport photos.


He is very cute and kind of shy.
He did not enjoy sitting in the chair for the photos
but was glad to go to Susan when the photos were finished!


He and Susan watched the cars go by downtown.



Then we went back to the hotel for PAPERWORK!


He enjoyed looking at his book of photos of his new family.


He had a great time playing with cars while papers were signed.




More photos to follow after supper!