Saturday & Sunday in Guangzhou

We finally had a day of good weather today in Guangzhou. We went to the pool (although Anna Grace screams if she gets too close to the water) and had supper in the park with some of the families in our travel group. Anna Grace also enjoyed her first Happy Meal today from McDonalds. She acted as if she had been eating chicken nuggets and French fries her whole life and refused to eat the corn that came with her meal!

Yesterday was filled with paperwork, a trip back to the medical exam office, and a traditional Chinese supper with our entire travel group. Anna Grace had to go back to the medical exam office to have her tuberculosis test read, and thankfully it came back negative. Then, our guide took us to a yummy Chinese restaurant and ordered traditional food for us. He promised to keep the food "tame" and he did. Although, the entrance to the restaurant had big tubs and pools where you could select what you wanted to bring into the restaurant (still living) and have killed and cooked right in front of you. You could chose from a variety of fish, turtles & silk worms! Thank goodness our guide knows American tastes and did not order any of those things for us!

We will be here until Friday evening (Friday morning your time) and then we will fly to Hong Kong. We will leave early in the morning on Saturday to come back home. Until then, we will just hang out here in Guangzhou and hope that the weather is nice enough to go out for a while each day. We have our consulate appointment this week and we have to wait for Anna Grace's visa to be able to come home. Anna Grace has been enjoying the playroom here in the hotel and she also enjoys walking around looking at the fish in all of the ponds and birds in the hotel lobby areas.