Out and About Today

Last night my internet connection fell when I had just started to talk to Scott on Skype.  I was so disappointed that I couldn't get it to re-connect.  It was late so I went to bed and hoped it would work in the morning.  Well, after many attempts, I couldn't get it to work this morning either.  Panic set in a little because I don't know what I'd do without getting to see the kids every afternoon!  Thankfully I can send/receive e-mails on my Droid so I e-mailed Paul to pray that the internet would come back on.   As I was leaving for the orphanage, I asked the hotel owner's wife if the internet connection was up and running.  I was so relieved to learn that the owner had already left to pay the bill and that it should be up and running later.  Thank you Lord!  I'm so spoiled to have internet access 24/7.

Well, I went to see John in the morning and afternoon again.  I don't know why I even write that because that's what I do everyday.  He still has something going on in his chest so we can't go outside.  It's bitter cold anyway with snow on the ground so playing inside is fine with me. We played in the same little area outside his living quarters.  His favorite thing to do is definitely to bat around a balloon or small blow up beach ball.  

Between visits, I ventured in to town to buy him a jacket, hat, and gloves.  Since I can't read any of the signs, I just looked in the windows to see if they had advertisements with kids on them.  I was surprised that I was able to find four stores and even more in the open air market that has booths set up one right after the other.  The one store that had the most inventory was without power so eventhough the saleperson was desperate to show me the items with her tiny flash light, I had to move on.  I don't know what I'd do without my Droid with the Google Translate app.  Every time I walked into a store, I'd show them what I was looking for and they'd bring me right to the merchandise.  I bought the cheapest one I could find that looked decent.  Once we return to NC, it will be warm and he'll probably never wear it again.  I brought it to the ophanage for him to try it on and it fit him perfectly.  Then I realized that the elastic on it was shot.  I forgot to check it!  I've learned that the clothing here isn't super well made or has been sitting on the shelves a long time so I should have been better about looking it over.  It will still keep him warm.

After our second playdate, I walked to the Wal-Mart type store, bought him a hat and some treats for tomorrow and ate dinner at the cafeteria.  I have no clue what I ate and I still can't believe I ate it because it didn't taste very good.  At least, it had cheese and a tomato melted on the top so it masked the flavor a little.  I sat at the table in the non-smoking section where I used to sit with Paul:(  Since he's been gone, I haven't taken many pictures and haven't had any taken of the two of us until today.  One of the caregivers took this one.  The other photos are of John playing with his Zsu-Zsu pet and gulping down a juice box I brought him.  He inhales any food or drink I give him.  As you can see, he is no longer wearing the Tom and Jerry sweater and his hair is growing out a little more each day.  Tomorrow I'll post some of the photos that Paul took.  You can't see his face very well in these.  Only 6 more days until I can take him out of the orphanage!  Bed #5 will be empty!