Hotel Set 2

The sitting room/office of our business suite. Oh yes and we are getting a great rate on it. Last shot is he view of Downtown Guangzhou outside our Dee is and was exhausted so it was here, easy and pretty good. She had Malaysian rice with kabobs and I had a Japanese style Udon with pork and miso soup. Was good and hit the spot. From here on more adventurous as far as I am concerned. Well lets see. we have our schedule of things, we get to meet YunWen at 2pm monday. After that she is one of us(oh my!) going to be a busy week but also some fun mixed in, visit to the zoo, several local historical spots nd much more. I wil try and post every night or two.
No idea what they look like on my log but oh well.

Hotel set 1

Views of the bathroom and bedroom at Garden Hotel. We have two beds as we will have a 12 year old wih s n Monday and she can have one They are sort of between a twin and a double back in the states so Dee and YunWen may share leaving me with a bed all to myself!

We are in Guangzhou

Well folks we have made it to china. Lilly one of the in country agency folks met us at the airport and brought us to our hotel . The Garden Hoetl in Downtown Guangzhou, and it is very very nice. Spending today just unpacking, taking much needed showers and just resting. We will probably go out and fin a nearby noodle shop for dinner and just take it easy. Will shoot some pics for everybody later today. So 36 hours straight of travel, 3 flights 3 different countries, temp change from oh 50s in NC freezing in NYC and Seoul and now close to 70 here now.

Nice

Well looks favorable weather wise for travel in the sates Thursday(keep fingers crossed) and into China. All next week in Guangzhou forecast calls for highs in the low to mid 70s with lows in the upper 50s. Oh that is going to be such a shame but we will suck it up and enjoy the warm weather. Last minute things to do but all is going well. Thanks for all of the support and well wishes both here and on message boards, we appreciate it very much!

Countdown Continues

Well just a few days before we leave for China and loads of last minute things to do. We are packed pretty much , airfares confirmed and just little things. Looks like we are flying form NC into JFK in New York. From there onto Korea and into Guangzhou. All told from the time we leave NC until China is 29 hours of travel. We get to China at noon their time on the 30th so we will stay awake and try and get to bed at our normal time. I sleep on planes pretty good and Korean Air has good room and service in economy so hopefully not too bad a leg from JFK to Seoul(14 hours). Hey we did a 17 hour leg in 2007 to get Sadie! Anyway We get YunWen on Feb 1 go through all of the China proceedings week one with it ending with her physical on Saturday. our consulate appoint is Feb.10 and we should get her final visa on the 12th. So wish us good travels, I will post from China as I can and have time. Next post will be from somewhere in route or in China!

Last set for now! Enjoy

Bowling with Nic and dancing with gaga at Chucky Cheese

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At Disney on Ice

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Christmas Pics and others from that time of the Year!

So here are several pictures from the Christmas Season. We had our nephew Nic's birthday party at ChuckyCheese where Sadie and Gaga danced with Chucky, went bowling, traveled to Knoxville to see MIMI, helped her bake cookies for Santa and had Santa come to Knoxville and leave presents. And teh snow! Played in the snow!

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test for pics! and why we are going!

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Ok so I am sending a test email from an account to my blog to make sure it will load properly while we are in China. This is a test, it is only a test, in the event of an actual posting ........you would have more information and maybe a photo!

We are headed to China

We got our travel approval this past Monday and our consulate appointment set. We leave next week and get YunWen on Monday Feb.1 and go through the process in China and come home Feb.13 Very excited and apologies if I don't post a whole lot, loads to do.

Just waiting on TA

Well we know all of our I800 info was cabled to the US consulate in guangzhou before christmas. We also know that the US consulate has approved everything and sen word to CCAA before the end of 2009. Well now we are just waiting our travel approval which hoefully willc ome in the next 3 weeks from Jan1. Please keep fingers crossed and pray we get this notice soon so we can travel get YunWen and get home before Chinese new Year9feb 14)