Ok so this morning we took the 45 min drive to what is considered the suburb of Shenyang to visit the Orphanage. The director very nice lady met us at the guarded front gate where the guard took our temperature. The driver was not allowed in so we walked up to the office where we dropped off our bags with the donated cleft bottles and all the other stuff. We took some pictures in front of the SWI directors building and then walked over to the children’s building. Right now there is only one children’s building but they are in the process of adding 4 more buildings in total to be 5 for the children. We could not really get a clear answer if that means that there are more children then they have room for or what the reason was.
We where not allowed to go into the children’s building but the director went in and brought out Shawn’s teacher and another nanny and some of the children he was in group with. Most of them looked to be younger then him. And some of the older kids where at school. We did find out that though they did bring him back to the SWI from foster care to go to school as he had his family waiting, which was the whole reason why he was brought back, they did not send him to school the whole time he was back. Very disappointing!

We had a lot of fun meeting this little group of kids and did find out that there is only one little guy age 3 that is waiting for his family to find him. He is just adorable a fun little guy full of live and energy he made us laugh a lot while we where there visiting with the children. I so wish somebody would look at his precious face and know that this is their child. There was one little boy that had only been there a short time apparently got lost? No luck finding his family. How can a child get “lost”? At any rate I was surprised to know that there where at least two other kids in this little group whose file was not at the CCAA that I thought would find a family in a heart beat! Anybody that wants to know about this little guy that I was told has his file with the CCAA please he is tooooo cute really so much fun !

As I noted before I was concerned about this trip and as expected Shawn did mention to our guide that he did not want to come back and stay there, however, it went much better when we did leave he did not put up a fuss at all. Maybe having the interaction with the other kids and being able to say goodbye to the teacher helped him and he did wave good bye and walked back to the driver without any issues. So that was good. He did get very antsy on the ride back it was a bit long for him so it will be interesting to see what the plane ride will be like tomorrow morning to GZ.

We found that he does get bored in the room and he does like to be outside on the go. He has a great appetite when he likes something. We went to the food mall a couple of times and ordered veggies and lots of dumplings well the kid likes dumplings and between him and I we did not leave one behind lol…..

Later on we are to go meet the guide for a trip to the Imperial Palace and then get Shawn’s passport for our trip to GZ tomorrow.

Hugs Angie