Red Couch Pictures

Time for the official 'Red Couch Picture'. This is a traditional picture of the babies in a specific travel group taken on the red couch in The White Swan hotel. Most of them usually wear authentic Chinese dress. Ella got to try out one of her new outfits.
Our picture was a bit chaotic as you can plainly see. Of all days, this was the day Ella was not feeling well. She woke up with a bit of an allergic reaction of some sort. Her one eye was a little puffy and her face was splotchy. She really wasn't happy when we put her down. Catherine, our guide, is in the picture below with the girls. Ella seems a little fed up at this point.
The middle picture in the first set below are the girls: Ella, Brinlee, Brinlee's big sister Brielle (attempting to comfort her), Emmalu, Sarah, and Donna (who really, really likes her Winnie the Pooh pillow). The pillow pretty much goes everywhere with her.
Brielle has been such a sweetheart this whole trip- probably one of the most well-behaved children I've ever seen. Hopefully, all of our girls will grow up to be just like her. She was adopted as a baby from South Korea. It seems that everyone in China thinks she is Chinese- they always ask her what province she was adopted from. We need to get her sign that says, "I'm Korean!" Brielle was nice enough to dress up and pose in some Red Couch Pictures with the girls and the one picture is her with blankets that her Girl Scout troop made to donate to the orphanage.
The picture of all of us was taken in front of the waterfall at The White Swan and includes our Guangdong families. I am sure we will keep in touch over the years after this life-changing experience.