She's A Morris

The past couple of days have been running around Changsha shopping, eating, and visiting a silk embroidery factory. Hunan is famous for its silk embroidery, which we found to be amazing. We taught Alia the 2 main things it takes to be in the Morris household – eating and shopping. We took Alia to McDonalds and she likes french fries.

We went to the grocery store to buy formula. The lady we worked with did not speak English and we do not speak Chinese. We were trying to figure out how much it was and the lady kept pointing to a sign in Chinese and putting up a 3 and then a 1 with her fingers. We thought she was saying it was 31 Yuan, but the sign below the formula said 19.80 Yuan. She also wanted us to fill out a piece of paper before we could buy the formula. We though maybe they rationed their formula. She then took me to the front counter, had another lady ring up the formula to show me the price, which was 19.80 Yuan. I told her I wanted 6 packages and she made us fill out the form.

We then went back to the formula isle and she put 8 bags of formula in the bag. I told her that I only bought 6 bags. She started the 3 and 1 thing again. I FINALLY realized that she was telling me that if I signed up for their discount card that there was a special on the formula of buy 3 get 1 free. So, it took us 20 minutes to buy formula.

We are starting to know some of Alia’s cues for tired, hungry, and get me out of this hotel room, which is making life a little easier. We are very much enjoying our time here but miss McKenna and Nathaniel something awful. We have a couple more days in Changsha and then off to Guangzhou to finish up paperwork.

Please continue to pray for our heath and that the time would go by fast for the kids. Thank you all for your support in this adventure.