In Guangzhou

January 22, 2011

Somehow I'm off a day, seems even after a week I am jetlagged and confused-especially about the date.

Yesterday was Friday; we flew from Nanjing to Guangzhou. Nikki was great on the flight.  Matthew was the entertainment of 2 Chinese children about his age-a boy & a girl.  The boy spoke a little English and they thought everything Matthew said or did was hilarious. They were so loud.

 

Today is Saturday. We went to Nikki's health appointment for her visa.  The place was full of people like us.  The Doctors (2 of them) couldn't hear much of a heart murmur.  I don't know how they could hear anything it was so loud in there.  Guangzhou is beautiful.  It is green and a lot warmer.  We are staying at the White Swan Hotel which is a high rise; It is supposedly a 5 star hotel.  The breakfast buffet was huge.  I had, scrambled eggs, banana bread, muskmelon, fish nuggets, a Chinese spring roll, pizza, a muffin, orange juice, hot tea, bread with jelly, fried potatoes and French toast.  We skipped lunch because we ate so much.  Nikki loved the scrambled eggs, melon and had her first banana. She also had a little banana bread and yogurt.  Matthew and Nikki are napping because we didn't arrive in our hotel room until around 11 last night.  Our guide David is still with us and we also have a guide Molly.  Molly said she thinks Nikki has a great personality for an orphanage baby, she would have though Nikki was in foster care because she is very smiley and happy.  She said most orphanage babies take a lot longer to come out of there shell.   Everybody comments about her crazy hair.  A lady in the breakfast café said she thought her daughter had sticky uppy hair but Nikki has her beat by a mile.  After the doctor appointment I went with Molly & David and took care of a bit of paperwork.  China is so easy, there is hardly any adoption stuff to do, and we don't have to be there for most of it.  Even the embassy paperwork was easy. This is like a vacation compared to Ukraine.

Tomorrow Molly is taking us to a Buddha temple, a supermarket and a Jade Market. Later this week she is going to take us to a zoo so Matthew can see a Panda Bear, and a cruise on the Pearl River which is just outside our hotel.