Gotcha Day is certainly a celebration for adoptive families. It's a tradition we chose to include in our family, ensuring to spend the day remembering our China journey as a family. We started our day taking big brothers and sister to school. Rachel and I then went to local photographer to have her "2-year-old" picture taken; figured it a good day every year to have her picture taken for both milestones. In her red polka dot dress, Rachel warmed up for a few smiles and had fun being the star of her own photo session. She's use to a lot of attention albeit she is not sure how to handle it all yet. After that we drove to downtown Dallas to check out The Crow Collection of Asian Art. It was a murky day with lots of low rain clouds and drizzle; exactly like it was this very day in Guanghzhou last year! Exactly.
We parked and walked the streets of downtown, which really could have been any major city in the world at that point. The skyscrapers were masked with the low-level clouds. Rachel was in awe staring up at the sky and the buildings that touched it. She and I strolled in the arts district and found ourselves in the Trammel Crow Center with lots of lovely, cold air conditioning! It truly felt like we walked back in time and that we were in some southerin China museum. What really surprised me is that this museum is absolutely FREE. We are thankful for this organization as they do a lot for the Asian community in DFW. 
The collection included a lot of southern China artifacts and Han dynasty collections (which is Rachel's heritage). Her favorite part (and mine) was the bridge of oragami butterflies. We took our time...Rachel was just full of wonder. 
We spent so much time at the museum, we decided not to hit the China district in Richardson..we'll have to do that another time soon. Later, we picked up Noah, Simon, Elizabeth and met Daddy at PF Chang's for dinner. YUM! A restaurant of quality food that all six of us like. Orange peel shrimp, honey chicken, lo mein, lettuce wraps, and mini-desserts. It was a full day that we simply took our time to enjoy. Happy Rachel day!
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