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Itinerary
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Leaving!
• Days
2-4
A 15-hour MRI and the Glass Wall Hong Kong Bathroom!
• Day
5
Refusing squat potties
• Days
6-7
Whoops, the trunk won't close
• Days
8-9
"Hip, Hip, HUBEI! Only 1 more day!"
• Day
10
GOTCHA!
• Days
11-12
Behind the Hokies
• Days
13-14
A visit to Elizabeth's finding spot, and the path her birth mother
took that day...
• Days
15-16
The 'Finding Ad' and leaving her Province
• Days
17-18
Ni Hao from Guangzhou!
• Days
19-20
Last days in her homeland through a little girl's eyes
• Days
21-22
I'm Coming Home
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23
We have arrived!!!!!!
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John
Meets Elizabeth
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First Month as
a Family of 4
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Special Update
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The past 1.5
years
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Happy Birthday
Elizabeth!
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Dave and I want everyone to know how
very much we
appreciate all the e-mails, and guest book messages on
our site. These are so very precious to us, and we are
going to print the guest book messages out for
Elizabeth to someday know how many people (many whom
we have never even met) were upholding all of us in
prayer on the other side of the world. Even though we
have not been able to respond to all of them, please
know we are reading every word and how much they are
meaning to us.
Navigating the Hong Kong metro maze was interesting to
say the least. The way people live their daily lives
here in this quaint little village of 8 million is
fascinating. Much like other metropolitan cities, the
Hong Kong metro was relatively easy to use. The
hardest part was deciding whether or not to get the
"octopus' pass ;)
We ventured out of hotel taking the metro to Central
Hong Kong, and then catching a taxi to Stanley Market
which sits on top of a Cliff overlooking the bay and
the City. It is a beautiful little street once again
filled with local wares.
Driving up the narrow two lane road was an experience
in itself. I had forgotten that Hong Kong automobiles
are like Europe. (Driver is on the right) and this
really plays with your head on a curvy narrow road
with a steep drop off on one side. When we left, we
decided to take a double decker bus back down that
narrow road, and there were some points when the bus
was barreling around a curve, and had to slam on
breaks, and back up so another double decker bus could
pass. Yikes. I understand mainland China is even
worse.
We got back to the hotel late, and began packing for
the move today to our agencies hotel the Regal
Riverside in another part of Hong Kong. I woke up
through out the night and could tell I was coming down
with something. Nothing major, but fever, body aches,
bad cough etc.. so I am opting out of the group tour
tomorrow and will use the time to attempt to rest and
hopefully throw off whatever this is before we get
Elizabeth. I think Dave is going to go with the other
families, mainly to get to know them as we have
already seen many of the areas that are on the 'group
tour'.
My incredibly wonderful husband is hailing a taxi to a
drug store as we speak in an attempt to convey to a
non-english speaking clerk that we need cough
medicine. With the SARS problem, anyone with
'symptoms' can be "quarantined" by the Chinese
Government. The pollution here is indescribable, and
that has not helped matters.We brought some with us,
but didn't count on getting sick so early in the game
and it's going fast.
We priced out doing laundry at our latest hotel and
it was going to cost over $70 to do it here! So off
Dave went into the Hong Kong night on a mission
carrying a backpack full of dirty laundry. What a
guy~!
Dave here: I just got back from my 'mission' and,
while I was able to procure cough/cold meds, I was
unsuccessful in my quest for a chinese laundry (a bit
ironic, don't you think?) It appears that we will be
sending a few essential items to the hotel laundry and
saving the bulk of it to do in Wuhan.
It turns out that, according to one of the better
english speaking locals, I was in "The world's largest
shopping mall". There was a grocery store in the mall
that made a Super Wal-mart look like a 7-eleven,
which, by the way were also quite numerous. I counted
no less than 4 of them in my wanderings.
Well, it has been a long day and our exciting tour
(sic.) gets an early start. So, it is time to get
some sleep.
Love,
Dave and Sue |
A near miss - and yes - it was just a blur
Even the graveyards are high rise
They're everywhere
Looking out from Regal Riverside Hotel room
View from the top deck of a bus
Whoops!
This used to close before our visits to the market.
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