Fried Eggs and Burgers

I want everyone to know that I have officially decided
that putting a fried egg on top of your hamburger must
be a Chinese thing. What am I talking about? Well,
we each have our adoption stories, and one day we
decided to go out to dinner with a lady named
Michelle, and two people named Donna and Jeff (who
have a daughter from our orphanage). Okay, so we're
there, we order what we want...Donna goes up to her
hotel room to change her daughter, Mia. While up
there, they bring out the food. My burger, mom's,
and Michelle's: all fine. Donna's: there was a FRIED
EGG between the pattie and the bun!!! We quickly
assumed that they had gotten her steamed-egg order and
her burger order mixed up. (Though, the steamed-egg
still came out okay.) So, she takes the egg off,
smashing the yoke all over her bun. Then she decides
to only eat the pattie, and underneath it, what else
do we find but bacon? BACON!!! (This pretty much
took the place of Michelle's vomit-sneaker story.)
So, this happended Monday, and I was cracking up all of
Tuesday, and teasing her for it. Today (Wednesday),
we go to a McDonald's, and guess what's on the
menu...a regular cheeseburger with everything on it
like ketchup and pickles, and...egg. A fried egg. We
have now decided that it must be a custom, and OUR
"regular" burgers must be the outcast food. And,
you know how "in-the-States", at McDonald's, there's
chocolate or strawberry syrup curling around the ice
cream? In China, there's green (sour apple), purple
(plum), and orange (mango?) draping the white stuff.
And they serve corn! What about Wal*Mart? Well, it
was pretty cool. It was two stories tall, and had
lots of stuff. There were three or four KFCs
(Kentucky Fried Chickens) in there, and there were
really cool escalators, which didn't have stairs. It
was like a moving ramp, so you could get your cart up
to each level. It was also magnetic, so the cart wouldn't roll off.
Today, we were supposed to tour a park
by some lake, but because of a typhoon (hurricane)
that hit China recently, it's very windy and cold, so
we toured this 6-story-tall "pagoda/pavillion" that
was mostly indoors. The baby finally cried two nights
ago, which had to happen some time. It was around 9
PM, and my mom had went downstairs to get a Nanchang
calling card to call home, and I was asleep, and
Dad...he was watching Kenzie. What I remember is
hearing a crying scream, and her pretty much gasping
for air in between. It was really loud, and I
remember saying, "What's that? Make her stop! Shut her up!". Half
a minute later, I got up, and handed her the photo
album, which we learned that that and a Carebear
toothbrush seem to be her comfort. She only cried for
two or three minutes, and it was a hurt cry, because
she had eaten a lot (it was fried egg night!), and her
stomach hurt. But the orphanage people were right,
she only cries when she's hungry. And since she eats
a lot, that equals to not much crying. Today, I think
she had a slice of water melon, a plate of eggs, 2
8oz. bottles, 3oz. of juice, 2 chicken nuggets, 1/3
cup of corn, and some water. And it's only 1:38 pm
over here! She woke up at five-thirty, and she's
already taken 2 naps, so she may be up late. Turns
out she DOES like baths. A lot! It's probably one of
her faovrite things, besides eating and going outside,
that is. We also bought a stroller, which she
l-o-v-e-s! We developed the film from the orphanage,
and I'm having a traditional Chinese outfit made for
me, and the baby's getting one made with shoes and a
hat at Tiffany's. Tiffany's...I had a "bad
experience" there. So, I had her in the Ergo (baby
sling), and my mom, Michelle, her daughter, Erin (13
1/2 mos.), and me were all at Tiffany's small store.
She (Kenzie) was in front of me, and I felt something.
So I ask outloud, "why are my pants wet?" And my mom
tells me she "went" on me." So I start freaking out,
rushing my mom, and almost running back to the hotel
to change. At dinner, I found out that my mom made a
mistake, and you sweat a lot in those, and I freaked
out for nothing. It was pretty funny. I also tried
bamboo. Well, at the time I thought it wass bamboo.
John (Collin and Lily's dad) had a whole bag of what
he said was bamboo, so I tried it. It wasn't
brilliant, but it wasn't revolting. I told eveyrone I
had bamboo. But the next day at breakfast, I found out
it was actually sugar cane. So, that's been my past
two days, and right now, I've got to go play with
Kenzie YangYang, and finish up my Skittles. Till
then!