Guiyang

Made it safely to Guiyang, which is the capital city here in Guizhou Province.  What a beautiful place!!!  mountains everywhere.  but not the huge towering imposing types,  these are soft, green rolling mountains.  And there's a river which cuts right thru the city making it even more spectacular.

we met our guide, Vicky, today.  she's so darn cute!  tiny and adorable and so very friendly.  She told us about the history of this area about the ethnic tribes.  She said the city where Dylan is, is populated mostly by one of two ethnic tribes, the Miao and the Buyoi.  And that by looking at Dylan she can tell which tribes she probably comes from.  Which is great because then i can by handmade craft items, carvings, paintings, etc made by people of her ethnic group.  Cool!!!  I also found out that Dylan's nickname is Na Na (her given name being An Na)  love that!!!  Na Na it is.  Unfortunately she's also 3 to 4 hours away.  so Gotcha day won't be until Monday at 4pm.  boooo  i was so hoping to be able to visit the orphanage and if possible see her finding spot.  Not sure that will happen now.  But i'm putting in my request just the same.  Our guide is really sweet and asked me to give her a list of all my questions so she can start getting answers from the orphanage tomorrow.

I can't believe Iv'e come so far and nothing but 3 or so hours is now separating me from my daughter!  going to try and fill the time with organizing the room tomorrow, walking around a bit, getting her things in order and basically pacing around...  oh what fun!

Well off to bed for me now.  very very exhausted.....   i'll take pix of this beautiful place tomorrow and post them on flickr