We made the short trek to Guangzhou!!! This is our final stop before we head home (in 6 days!!!!) If I had a choice I would have stayed here all 2 weeks. The Garden Hotel is AMAZING to say the least. It is a 5 star hotel that is beyond what I ever expected. This is a very large city of approx 16.5 million people in this city. We did not have internet connection yesterday as we waited for Lily's Chinese passport. Our guide could not pick it up until 5 pm therefore we ended up changing our flight from 7 to 9 pm (after Lily's bed time). Then..... our flight was delayed for almost 2 hours. We had to wait in the very small and VERY HOT Nanning airport with a 2 year old who was hot and tired. When she is tired and bored she decides that it is fun to go to the bathroom 1200 times. Did I mention they had "squatty potties?" Nasty with pee all over the floor and she felt it was super cool to go in multiple times. Anyways, we finally got on the plane and she was so excited to see all of the new things. She watched everyone and was great on the flight. We didn't get to Guangzhou until midnight and checked into our hotel around 1 am. She fell asleep as we were landing and stayed asleep until 730 this morning.
We got up and have a free breakfast buffet which is HUGE!!!! Western and Chinese breakfast with everything you can imagine to eat. After breakfast we had our medical at the travel clinic. Today the clinic has been the busiest that they have seen in over 4-5 years. They saw about 100 adoptive families there today. It was hot and busy. We have had nothing but hot weather. 70 and up everyday. Today was 80 and tomorrow will be 85. It is very humid too. We packed for winter so we sent our laundry out so we could have our short sleeves back. I am also soaking stuff in the tub now.
Tomorrow is finalizing Visa paperwork and checking out some of the shops around here. We had Starbucks, Pizza Hut and great Mexican tonight. Our guide is taking us to the zoo, shopping on Shamin Island, a river cruise and said he would even take us to lunch and or dinner one day for traditional Chinese food.
As for Lily...... She is acting like she has never had another family!!!! Praise God!!!! She is also picking up on signs really well. Of course here favorite is to sign "cookie more please" the kid LOVES to eat snacks!
We also met another family that I have been talking with from our agency and the girls play great together. Kim, Doug and Lakelin (their newly adopted 6 yr old girl) are from Iowa. What a wonderful Christian family. Can't wait to watch Lakelin blossom. I think we maybe going to Iowa to visit one day.
In Nanning before we left
First airplane ride
Christmas tree in the lobby of the Garden Hotel
Waiting at the medical clinic
Lakelin, Kim, me and Lily
Lily was watching a little girl have a tantrum
Lily and daddy
Fell asleep on the bus back to the hotel
Our room at the Garden (King bed)
This is a glass wall with a remote control curtain between the bedroom and bathroom. It has a rain shower in it too!!! Felt so good at 1 in the morning.
Our view
Our view
Living room to the front door
Other direction of the living room.
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