"Stairway to Heaven", at the Great Wall
Saturday, September 03, 2005
We've made Guangzhou
Last night we arrived in Guangzhou, the city where we will be picking up Penelope. The hotel is awesome. It looks like a La Vegas hotel with marble floor and walls. Everytime the elevator doors open to the lobby I'm waiting for lovely sounds of slots machines. In the rear of the hotel there is beautiful garden with a waterfall. The weather is hot and humid and we were awaken by thunderstorms and rain this morning (2 more weeks). We walked around the streets last night and found a KFC. Joe kept talking about how that was the best chicken sandwich he's ever had. I think it was the 5 days of chinese food talking. This city is more of an industrial city. As we were driving to the hotel, we saw many buildings with people sewing inside. Sukie got excited because now she will be on the quest for JLo knockoffs on the streets. Pepper is talking about buying another suitcase since she will be doing lots of shopping. All I can think about is my baby. The closer to Monday it gets to more excited and nervous I become. Today we will be joined with the rest of the group for dim sum. During this feast, we will be giving all of our fees to the staff. It will be relief because I was nervous caring around alot of cash. They will also give us our directions for the next 2 weeks. Some families will be flying out to other provinces for 5 days and return with their babies. The U.S. Consulate is in Guanzhou so every adopting family must come here in order to get their babies visa. Luckily Penelope's orphanage is in this province so we will not have to fly out.
Today I will be on the quest for diapers and formula because I relalize that I did not bring enough. My new life has begun.
Today I will be on the quest for diapers and formula because I relalize that I did not bring enough. My new life has begun.
Friday, September 02, 2005
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Great Wall
Today we woke up a little later, 6:30 am. We've been waking up around 4:30am. The time change is not as hard as I expected. Yesterday was great, we went to the Great Wall. It is everything that I imagined and more. The mountains are green and beautiful and the wall is magestic. We arrived around 4 pm so it was not very hot and the winds were blowing. The views as the sun was setting were incredible. Did we climb the wall? Well, Joe went up higher than I did and I think that I had climb far. I sat down in the center of the steps and watched people climb up. It was cool to watch people from everywhere in this world go up. They all had the same look "what the heck am I doing?" They would smile at me, some would give up and sit next to me and others would continue up. I sat there and thought to myself, "I'm at the freaking Great Wall of China". Earlier we had gone to the Ming Tombs. There were 13 emperors in the Ming Dynasty and they're all buried here. The tombs were not impressive, it was a cave with boxes in them. The boxes are not the original but the scenerey was beautiful. We were later transported to lunch which was the worse yet. But we made it up at dinner. Today was Jennifer's birthday and we ordered a cake from the hotel to be delivered to the restaurant. We celebrated her birthday by drinking 50 cent beers. I felt that we were at Happy Hour. We are getting more excited as we become closer to getting Penelope. 3 more days to go.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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