Our Best Day Yet!!!

Wow!!! They say after the first 72 hours, it starts getting better. No kidding. What a way to start the day. As you saw in one of my earlier posts, I finally got to hold my baby girl. Praise the Lord!! It was so awesome. One of the best feelings a man could ever have! I sang Jesus Loves Me to her and I could hardly sing without choking up. I even grabbed the video camera and videoed myself because Steph was in the shower. I haven't been able to hold her since, but that was enough to get me by for a couple of days. We have had the best day. Not much crying at all and a lot, I mean a lot of playing. No nap either, and still going strong at 8pm. She is getting a little cranky, but she is a ball of energy. She takes after her daddy. LOL! We went to the park today. It was ultracool. I have never seen so many monkeys in all my life. They were running around everywhere. You will see in my posts when I post pics of how they were so close to us. They were jumping on people and running around. It was crazy. One lady was feeding them and they jumped all over her. I thought to myself, "Now this Chinese woman is very brave or very stupid!" I was even lucky enough to step in my first pile of monkey poop. That stuff really smells. Dogs don't have anything on monkeys. I got it all in the van and even in the hotel room. Advice for anyone who comes to China and visits a park with a lot of monkeys in it...Watch for the monkey poop and if you step in it, be sure and clean your shoes before you go to your room. That is one thing I can say I have done that my friends have not. Oh yeah, and using a toothbrush to clean my shoes in the bathtub was not very cool. It was Steph's toothbrush. I washed it out with peroxide after I used it. Shhhhh! She'll never know. We went and visited a temple. That was pretty neat. There was a BIG statue of Buddha in there. He is a pretty BIG dude! We then visited the Pagoda. It is 500 years old and has a lot of history. Don't really know any of the history, but it has a lot of it. Anyway, we are having more and more fun every day here in Guiyang. We only have one more full day here and it is off to Guangzhou. We will miss this place. The people aren't staring as much. They are starting to smile at us. You can tell many Americans do not visit this place. It is very poor but we really enjoy it. The food has been great. Tonight, we ate a huge meal and it was only $18 for 5 adults and HG. She is one BIG eater. She loves noodles. I cannot believe she is still running around. As I sit here watching her sitting in her mommy's lap kicking her little feet, I just jsut realized the she doesn't have a clue how much of a blessing she truly is!! I cannot wait until the day that she is old enough so she can understand so I can tell her that. But I am not going to wish her life away. That time will come. She must be worn out right now!! Well, I could write all night long and I am probably boring you, but I will post again later with some pictures. Take care.

GREG