Saturday's big task was getting Becca Joy's "medical exam". The eight other families in our group had arrived the night before, and we were altogether for the first time on the bus around 9 am to go to the Medical Examination Office. Although it was only about a 10 minute walk, it seems our guides thought none of the American's would want to walk, so we all boarded the bus. After arriving, we had to first get a picture taken of Becca Joy for her physical exam form and her VISA. 
Afterwards, we went to the medical examination office. There were three stations: height, weight and temperature; physical exam; and ear, nose and throat. She passed with flying colors. Basically, I think everyone does. When we adopted Hopey, I remember the guide telling us to not say anything was wrong or we could have to go through a lot of red tape. Becca Joy also had to get a TB test. But the worse part was that due to changes in the Hague Convention laws, she had to be brought current on all her vaccinations. Basically, that meant she received six shots all within about 3 minutes. Wow. I couldn't have even taken that. In fact, I left her there with Priscilla and I went outside with Hopey. Becca Joy cried quite a bit, but settled down after about 10 minutes. She got two shots in each leg and one in each arm. After lunch and a nap, we exploring at the Qing Ping market, an outdoor market selling all sorts of strange creatures for your dinner table. As fitting, we went on to dinner at a Cantonese restaurant where they had snakes and all sorts of things on the menu. We stayed pretty safe with beef and fish. It was delicious.
All in all, it was a great day. Tomorrow is sight seeing and then we start winding it down to go back home next Friday.
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