A Very Challenging Day

Today was a real rollercoaster.  With all of the official business completed we started our tours of Jinan.  Our first stop was the Baotou Springs.  It would have been a really nice and interesting tour but it was raining and the temperature was above freezing.  We cut the tour short and went to the Quancheng City Park.  They have an underground shopping mall so we went there to find a few things for Yang.  After another huge lunch at a great restaurant we walked out to find it snowing.  That cancelled the tour of Danming Lake.  It continued through the afternoon and also cancelled tomorrows tour of the Thousand Buddha Mountian.  We will just take a van tour of the Yellow River tomorrow.  Yang started the day well by finally eating better.  She really started to eat normally at lunch.  Since we did not tour during the afternoon we stayed in the hotel all afternoon.  That gave her time to think about what was happening and she had several meltdowns.  I was able to somewhat distract her by drawing pictures with her as we have discovered that she loves to draw.  She asked me to draw some things and than strted joining in between tears.  After an hour or two the big meltdown occured.  She folded up the papers and wanted them put in an envelope to send to her foster family.  Needless to say this understanding took a while to come to since our Mandarin and her English are not exactly in sync.  Our guide helped us come to an understanding.  She is now sullen and probably angry.  This will be a long road.  There is a little boy from Qingdao that she knows who is being adopted by a family from Spain and we have been told he is angry as well.