It's Official!

On Tuesday we traveled back to the Civil Affairs office to receive the adoption certificate.  We spent the better part of the morning there with the 3 other families we saw on Monday.  2 were from Spain and the other was from Sweden.  One of the boys, who appeared to be about 9 years old, was from the same orphanage as Juliet.  He told us (through an interpreter) that they lived in separate buildings.  Once our certificate was ready, we had a ceremony where the civil affairs woman read through our document and made the adoption official.  Juliet is ours!

We returned to the hotel after that to have lunch and so that Juliet could take her nap.  She only slept for about 45 minutes though which made for a long afternoon.  She was very tired.  We spent the rest of the afternoon walking around Silk Street where they have shop after shop of items made from silk.  Scarves, dresses, pajamas,etc.  Everyone was very interested in us as we were the only westerners there.  It's funny how they react when they see we have a Chinese baby.  They can't seem to figure out why. 



We returned to the room after this to let Juliet play and run around for a while.  We had a quick dinner and then returned early to put her to bed.  She was very tired.  She fell right asleep, but after about 30 minutes, I (Matt) went to check on her.  She her me, woke up and could not fall back asleep for about 45 minutes.  However, once she did fall asleep, she slept for almost 11 hours. 

We're off to breakfast now and then we're going on a boat tour of West Lake.