Friday, March 11, 2011

Now in Guangzhou!

Today was about traveling to the next and final (official) city, Guangzhou. After breakfast, we received a copy of Grace's "finding" advertisement (newspaper ad) as a keepsake, checked out of our hotel, and headed to the airport for a 2:30pm flight to here.

The original flight was cancelled a week ago, so we were taking an earlier flight. That flight then was delayed after we got to the airport. When we heard that there was an hour and a half until boarding, two families went up a floor to find lunch. Not ten minutes later, they announced something in Chinese, and all the waiting people literally scrambled over to the bus-boarding area! We got the hint that the flight had just been "un-delayed", and then the announcement came in English. The families upstairs had just ordered, but luckily got their money back as the order hadn't yet been put in. Thank goodness they made it onto the flight.
Grace slept through the entire flight with the help of a bottle and her mommy's tender arms. If she does that on the long flight I just might put this girl through college! :)
We've heard many things about the famous-in-China-adoption-circles "White Swan" hotel. It is indeed very nice. All three hotels we've stayed in are pretty swanky. I can only imagine what we Americans (not just westerners) are thought of by our hosts. We stay in 5-star hotels, apparently are pushy and demanding (a funny idea to me, based on what I've experienced here), make interesting observations about the way people drive (I should tjavascript:void(0)ell you sometime), and the first "american food" restaurants that come recommended are Mickey-D's and KFC. But I digress.
As K and G are both asleep, I'll just cut it short. Actually, that's about all there is to report today.
More appointments tomorrow, and several throughout the week.
More later! Hope you're all doing well.

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