Frozen in time

First if there is mistakes in this post for some reason my blog settings are all Chinese characters for some reason.  It seems there is always something figure out or fix which I guess keeps us busy.  On Monday we went the pearl and jade markets and then on to a boring museum.  In the afternoon our air conditioner quit working and the washer door broke so we had to pack up and move to a new room which earned us two boxes of high end chocolates.  We have enjoyed being in a group with other adopting parents.  Everyone else is adopting kids 3 and under from Texas, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.  Tuesday we went to the zoo and then later we went out to dinner with friends we made in province from Tennessee.  Today we went to Shamian Island.  What a beautiful relaxing place it is there.  We will probably go back again since we was only allowed 2 hours there with our guide.  The exciting find of the day was a Chinese/English Bible for Shane.  He may wear a Buddha necklace and even have another spare one in his suitcase but he's hearing the gospel everyday.  Today we heard the latest drama with our paperwork for Shane.  Now the US consulate is asking for a third party to write a letter saying the 1/2 brother and aunt have signed off their rights.  The problem we are having is knowing who they will accept as a third party.  Lifeline is hoping to persuade the orphanage to write this letter and at this point we are thinking of offering cash for that service to them just so we can get out of the country.  We need to change our tickets by Friday so we need a schedule to be able to move forward with that.  Our time in country has been good but we are so ready to be home with all our kids.  We are praying and believe that Shane's CA can be Monday with Selah's so we can fly home Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning.  We are now done with all the activities with our group since they are all heading home tomorrow or Friday.  We are planning an orphanage visit sometime when it works for our guide.  Also we are planning to go to the Chimelong Safari.  On Sunday hopefully we can find somewhere to go to church.  Yesterday while at the zoo our guide was talking to us about whether we should do an orphanage visit or not.  After we talked Shane walked up to the guide and said are we going to go the orphange which means he's understanding more of what we are saying.  Shane is doing really well.  He doesn't like to talk or use the translator so we can only guess what's going inside.  He doing better with Selah too.  Selah is bonding better especially with her baba (dad).   She spends a lot of time talking to herself probably because she's lonely for interaction.  Our hearts are longing for home but yet know we will miss this country that holds our children's culture.  Andrew also can't wait for good old American food.