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Touring in Guangzhou

 

Our flight to Guangzhou adventure

Imagine being the only Americans on a flight in China, and having your flight delayed for 1 hour.  And then when we got our bags put away and sat down in our seats the captain comes on the intercom and says we will be delayed again because of bad weather in Guangzhou (lot lot of Chinese chatter).  Four and a half hours later our captain says we will be taking off (cheers).  Two hours later we are over Guangzhou waiting for our turn to land and we are told they are not going to allow us to land ( more Chinese chatter).  The captain makes a decision to fly back to Shanghai (a lot more Chinese chatter).  We land in Shanghai while the captain and the Shanghai airlines discusses what to do next.  An hour later the captain comes on the intercom and says,  "sorry but this flight has been canceled".  A mad rush to get bags and off the airplane to the ticket desk to get the next flight out (a lot of yelling Chinese chatter).  It is 1:30 A.M. and the next flight out is at 8:00 A.M. and we were told we need to come back to the ticket desk at 6:00 A.M..  So we find a comfy spot and settle down for a short two to three hour nap.  Everybody comes back at 6:00 (a mad rush from counter to counter as people are getting there two hundred YUAN compensation, getting tickets for 8:00 A.M. flight and checking there bags.  Well we finally get to our gate and we sit down to wait for them to call us to start boarding.  But wait, the story is not over yet.  Our flight is 45 minutes late in getting here.  We finally board the airplane (a nice roomy 767).  We sit down in our seat and keep in mind that these are the same people that were on our last flight that was canceled, and the captain comes on the intercom and says, "Sorry but we will be delayed another 45 minutes".  The entire airplane explodes into a bunch of angry Chinese chatter that lasted for a good couple of minutes.  The good thing is Rebecca and me didn't have to do a thing.  Our guide did everything and I have to say she is quite the dealer and finagler when it comes to getting in front of the line and and making sure all of us are taken care of.  All Rebecca and me had to do was keep a three year old occupied,  which I have to say was quite easy with our Ella.  She was amazing through the whole ordeal.  So now here I am on a Sunday afternoon just down the road through a beautiful garden sitting at Starbucks drinking a frappy,  Ahhhhh this is nice.

The decision of where to eat is endless.

But as you can tell of all the places to eat we chose a more traditional Shanghai lunch.  Rebecca is eating Shanghai style spring rolls or Shanghai famous as our guide tells us.  Look at how she uses those chopsticks like a pro.  We also had Shanghai famous steamed buns and fried buns.  Rebecca looked them up on the web for the recipe already.

adoption signing ceremony

Ella officially becomes ours.  Friday we receive the rest of the documents and it's off to Guangzhou.

Ella Joy Rogers

Introducing our third Daughter.

Rickshawing through Old China

 

The Forbidden City

Here are a few photos of us in Forbidden city.

A Great Day at the Great Wall!

       We walked along the ancient Great Wall of China today!!!  An amazing site to see. It was a very steep hike up hills an steps at times.  Jeff and I broke a sweat doing what we both love to do. Hike.    We could have walked for miles and miles and gotten lost in the hills and steep steps that wound along the mountain range.   We only had time for about three mile today.  That's ok.  It was as I said before a great amazing.   Now on to our most amazing  experience yet,  Ella!  We leave tomorrow evening for Shanghai!!!!  We will keep you posted.  Happy Mothers day to all you wonderful moms out there who are reading this. 

Hotel Life

I just washed my feet and I can't do a thing with them.

Frogs anyone?

Taken from the corner market.

The count down is at zero

You know we were so busy the last couple days before we left on Wednesday that Rebecca leaned over to me when we were about to land in Beijing and said, "we forgot to put #'s 2 and 1 on our blog."  Sorry we couldn't post the last two pictures.  We are going to bed right now so we will post tomorrow with some pictures of Beijing.  Jeff and Rebecca signing off.

Three YIPEEEEE!!!!!!

We are all packed!!!  Now we are enjoying our girls!!!

Thank you for your prayers as we 've been packing!!!

FOUR MORE!!!!!

The FINAL FIVE!!