Day 3 comes to a close

Today is winding down another busy day for The Newsome family. We were off and running to a couple of places for adoption appointments. Prior to our appointments, we made a walking trip off the island where our hotel is and ventured into the city. What an experience. We made this journey with another family from Oregon. It's amazing how many stores there are here and the deals you can make on everything from clothes to electronics. We were armed with our secret weapon, the charm of Mr. William Newsome. It helped us get some incredible prices quoted to us, but we didn't buy anything today none the less.

After a little shopping and walking around the city, it was off to some adoption processing appointments. Our first stop was to pick up our Certificate of Adoption from the Center for Chinese Adoptions and then we were off to take passport photos of Sofia.

In the passport photo room, we waited with the parents of approximately 100 other little babies anxiously going through the steps to get things finalized. Having that many babies in the final stages of processing for adoption was a sight to see. Every parent in the room had this look of joy and love on their faces. It also made you stop to think what would have become of these precious little ones had each family not been blessed with them.

We left and headed back to the hotel where Sofia took her nap and the boys and I went exploring again. We made it back to the room again and the whole family went out for one last stroll before calling it a day.

We've been blessed with great weather thus far as it's been in the high 80's to low 90's (and it's suppose to be warmer tomorrow - yea ha).