Here is additional info about Lily's orphanage and the province of Anhui:

http://www.afada.org/proyec/p01316orfanchuzhou.htm  This is the orphanage where Lily is right now. 

http://www.theeway.com/beccagerlich/site/china.html this is the story of a little girl from the same orphanage Lily is waiting for us in.  Their experience makes us expect many similarities for our travel including staying in a hotel in Hefei for about a week, then traveling to Guangzhou to complete paperwork and get our visa for Lily to return to America.  We will most likely fly from Guangzhou to Hong Kong and then back to LA... Tallahassee!

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/climate/hefei.htm  here is the climate.

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/anhui/hefei/index.htm info about the town we stayed in.

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/anhui/  info about the province she is from

http://www.halfthesky.org/assets/pdfs/NewsletterII4.pdf  newsletter from an organization that helped Lily's orphanage last summer, they are incredible and if you are looking for a solid organization to support this is IT!