Wednesday January 19, 2011

A visit to the Social Welfare Institute of Nanjing

 

Today we visited Nikki's orphanage. It is a nice place-probably a bit nicer than Matthew's orphanage but not nearly as nice as Alex's.  We didn't get to go inside the rooms, but we were able to take a peek and a few pictures from the hallway.  We met lots of her caretakers.  We weren't there very long because they said the kids were sick. It seemed to be naptime.  We got a photo of Nikki's bed which sadly has already been filled by another orphan.  There are over 137 million orphans in the world, but 1 less as of yesterday. 

After the trip to the orphanage we walked behind our hotel to the area of the Confucious Temple.  It is very pretty, but it was cold and breezy so we didn't stay long.  We stopped by Pizza Hut for lunch.  We tried some deep fried squid which wasn't bad.  Then back to the hotel for a nap for Nikki and some homework for Matthew.