Today was a long day, as is most of our days here! We started out with breakfast, which is the yummiest meal of the day for me! Our hotel has a great breakfast, its huge and beautiful! So after breakfast we headed to Shamian Island. This is where the White Swan hotel is. That's the hotel where all the adopting families use to stay and it is under renovation. When you stayed at that hotel you received a Barbie doll mom with a Chinese baby! Precious!! but they don't make them anymore. We did get to see one and it is so sweet, I would love one! We made an offer but the man wanted to keep it as a souvenir! :( We will get on eBay and try to find one when we get home! We couldn't even go inside the hotel to take pictures but we did get to shop and shop and shop! We got several gifts and souvenirs to keep for us! It was BEAUTIFUL out there! It was like Charleston or Savannah. Every pretty, beautiful park, very quaint and lots of shops! I wish we could have stayed out there! There were photo shoots going on out there, and those women were beautiful!
We left the Island and went back to the hotel. I had to finish up packing and get everything ready for our trip to Hong Kong and then home. Tony had to go buy us another suitcase to get everything home. We had received a really thick photo album from the orphanage and we had lots of paperwork that I took that we didn't need and we really wanted to check as much as possible and not have to carry so much on the plane since we had her with us. So we got packed and then it was time to get pictures of the group, families and babies. The group and families went pretty good! Jason and Maggie had a red rug they put on the steps for us to take pictures of the babies. So just imagine trying to get 11 babies to sit on this rug and not try to get up, hit, fall over, run away, etc..... It was hilarious! We did get a few pictures but they are "crazy". But what great memories we have. We are so excited to be getting ready to go home but we are a little sad to be leaving our friends.
We got Emery's clothes changed and ready to go. We were suppose to take the train to Hong Kong but Jason convinced us that getting a van to take us was much better. It was a little more expensive but totally worth it. The van would pick us up at the hotel and deliver us to our hotel in Hong Kong. If we took the train we would have to have gotten a taxi to take us onto our hotel. So the van was better. So the time came, Jason returned with Emery's visa. Amy, Jeff and Luke were also going in a van to Hong Kong, so he got us our brown envelope and her visa and it was time to say good buy! Our friends, Julie, Sudie and Trisha and Jason were all there to tell us good buy. We were the first families to leave. Then it was time to tell Jason and Maggie our guides good buy! They have been great! They led us through everything. The van arrived and we were off to Hong Kong for one more sleep and then home. It was about 3 hours away. Emery did great riding and even took a little nap. Hong Kong is separate from China so we had to go through customs to get in, it was really weird! Then after we got through customs we went through another check point where they opened our door and a lady stuck a "radar gun" looking thing and pointed it at us. She as checking our temperature. Our driver said that if you have a fever they make you go to the clinic. CRAZY!!!!!!!! Once we got through there we were off to our hotel. We are staying at the Airport Regal hotel. This way we will only have to walk over to the airport in the morning. I had packed our stuff so that we only had to get in one suitcase and then we wwould be ready to go in the morning. We are so excited to be coming home. I feel like a child ready for Christmas!!!!!!!
After we got checked in we were all hungry so we went to a restaurant in the hotel, o my goodness it was expensive and they food wasn't that great! At this point we don't even care, we just want to eat, sleep and go home!!!!
Hopefully the next update will be from home!!!!!!!!!!!! We can't wait to see everyone!!!!!!!
Hugs and love! Last sleep!!!!!!!
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