Chinese Medicine Market

Feeding our "baby bird" at Lucy's Restaurant.Dried Deer Legs
Dried Snake Skins
Some sort of beetles a man just poured out onto the sidewalk when we walked up. They were crawling all around.


Went to the Chinese Medicine Market today. Quite the experience. It is an endless maze of alley ways with displays of strange items like dried seahorses, deer limbs, bugs, roots, snake skins, and lots of stuff that we didn't even recognize. To think that some of the people in there never come out of those winding, dirty, smelly, hot alley ways. What a life. How blessed we are to live where we do with all we have.

We made a trip to the American Consulate for our swearing in, a day early. This is a ceremony that all immigrants take part in. We stood with 40+ families raising our right hands and promised that all information given about our family and Lily is correct. I have much admiration for adoptive families of all kinds. There were parents with us there for their 2nd, 3rd, even 4th time to adopt children. One girl being adopted was nearly 14, which is a critical age here. After these children turn 14 they are no longer eligible for adoption and then put out on their own at 16 years of age. Another family was adopting a blind child and yet another family here on their 3rd trip to China adopted a boy and a girl, both deaf. I am humbled by their sacrifices and tremendous ability to love.

Lily is very nearly an American Citizen. As soon as we step off the plane at JFK and set foot on American soil she becomes a citizen!!

Then it was off to lunch at Lucy's, an american restaurant here on the island. We call Lily our little baby bird because of the way she puts her head back and opens her mouth for food. Took advantage of that beautiful pool and off to sleep we went... Enjoy the pictures. Can't wait to see you all.

Love,

The Scicchitano's

Chinese Medicine Market