Friday,
August 10, 2012
We are in
Guangzhou living the “suite” life in our VERY
air-conditioned 2-room suite! Woohoo!! We may move in…..
Yesterday was a long day…night. We of course hit the
breakfast bar and said good bye, to our friend Helen. She
asked when we were coming back….ummm…..
We decided to walk to MacDonalds at lunchtime since we
were not sure when our next chance to eat would be. That
was interesting. It was the first time EmmeClaire and I
had really done much “walking” through the streets of the
city. You learn quickly in China to MOVE when you are
walking. So many people, so many cars, so many “scooters”
you had better go or….
Once back we got packed up and headed downstairs to wait
for Cindy. We had one last important stop before getting
on the plane, to get the kid’s passports. We went to a
government building in a new section of the city. Cindy
said the whole area had been built in the last 3 years.
HUGE apartment buildings were all over this area and nice
stores. It could have easily been a new suburb of any US
city. We had to wait outside the fence of a “government
building” for the passports. One of the officials brought
the passports down, handed it through the gate, and we
headed to the airport.
Cindy helped us through security and then the waiting
began. Here comes the good news, bad news….Good news…THERE
WAS A BOOK STORE! Guess who got some new books??!!
Yeah….so they are mostly in Chinese but still….let the
book buying begin…oh who am I kidding, I started buying
her books YEARS ago! And since one of our favorite books
from home met with disaster involving a bottle explosion…
Bad news….delayed over an hour. The problem is when you do
not understand the language being spoken…we had no idea
why it is delayed or when we were going to be leaving.
We were finally let on the plane but our waiting was not
over. The flight attendants brought dinner while we sat in
the fairly un-air-conditioned plane. It was a pretty FULL
flight and a very small plane. Right in the middle of
passing out the dinners, the plane started moving and we
were up…. EmmeClaire must have been hungry since she ate
all 3 trays worth of rice and vegetables. And apparently
all that helping EmmeClaire learn to move paid off….she
barely sat still the entire flight….except to eat! I tried
to convince her to sleep…nah why bother to sleep when you
can move all over. The flight was about 2 hours….15 hours
next week…ohhhhh boy.
It was so nice to be reunited with all the other families
and Uncle Zhou. There was an issue with another family’s
stroller so we left the airport around 11 pm. Not sure how
long the ride to the island was because EmmeClaire and I
fell asleep for some of it UNTIL she decided to get the
other kids started on a rendition of CRYING….talk about
the babies on the bus going wah wah wah….the parents were
going wah wah wah too.
Zhou had managed to swing us all suites, not sure how but
not asking questions, so we now have 2 room, 2 bath suite.
AHHHH! And the AC…..beautiful. After all that excitement
of her first plane ride, EmmeClaire wanted to party….until
well after midnight. She is like her brother…the later it
gets, the more tired she gets, the sillier she gets….Not
sure WHEN she fell asleep because I fell asleep first with
her on the bed.
This morning is the medical exam. After that we have
some….what could it be??....paperwork to do!! I am anxious
to see the “island” as we have heard it is so nice and
relaxed. Oh and…..shopping! Baby needs a new pair of
SQUEAKY shoes J But will have to see as someone may be a
little tired today after her big night of partying.
Not much else to report…another day closer to being home
with Adam! A special good luck to EmmeClaire’s Uncle Mike,
and all the riders participating in Pelotonia back
home….those in the C-bus area knew well this bike “tour”
of varying lengths each August to raise money for the
James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University! It is
quite an accomplishment and this will be year 3 for him.
Adam: We have missed FaceTime with you the last few
days! We hope you are being good and enjoying camp! We
can’t wait to see you next week! Have fun tomorrow/today
chasing Uncle Mike on his bike!! |
Happy
girl!
Who is in charge here?
The walk to the golden arches
Baby’s first airplane ride! Good-bye Henan Province
Look who decided to try a new kind of “flying”
The duo at Pelotonia Pre-race party! |
