Friday,
December 26, 2008
When Lauren woke up today she still had a fever and her little
eyes were all red. She wouldn’t eat any congee or rice cereal
and she was obviously feeling bad and was super fussy. She did
take some formula, but that was expelled just as quickly as it
went in. My poor baby. We think there’s a little virus being
passed around between all of the babies because at one point or
another, they all seem to have this spouts of diarrhea, etc… If
the fever continues tomorrow, we will take her to the clinic
here in Guangzhou to get checked out.
Despite feeling under the weather, our little girl did very well
on her first flight. Mind you it was only an hour or so, but
there was no crying to I’ll call it a success. She was pretty
darn wiggly though, so I can’t imagine how we are going to
survive a 15-hour flight home next week, especially because they
have Mike and I in separate rows. Oh my. We are going to see if
someone can pull some strings to get our seats changed up.
Fingers crossed!
We are staying at The White Swan Hotel on Shamiam Island, right
on the Pearl River. It’s a really lovely area, which reminds us
all of Florida, with the exception that the river is quite
polluted. Apparently years ago, the American Consulate was right
across the street so it was a given that adopting families would
stay here. The Consulate has since moved, but it still remains a
vey popular place to stay. It truly is a beautiful building and
we hear the breakfast buffet is to die for, so we’ll have to let
you know about that on tomorrow’s post. Our room faces the river
and at night the area is all lit up and colorful. Once we were
settled in today, we went for a stroll around the area. There
are a bunch of little shops where we can buy typical touristy
items but we also can use their internet access, leave clothes
to be laundered for much less than the hotel fees and borrow
(free!) strollers. Of course, the shops do all of this in the
hopes that we will buy from them and not the competition but it
really is quite nice and all of the shop employees are super
friendly and kind and they speak English. That makes things much
easier! We went to a shop called “Jessica’s” and borrowed a
stroller. We had rented one for one day in Guilin when we went
to visit the Buddhist temple and it really didn’t go over too
well. We thought we would give it another try to spare our backs
and thank the Lord, Lauren actually enjoyed being in it tonight
– maybe it was the change of scenery or maybe just the fresh air
but either way, we are glad she is content in the stroller! Oh
and yes, it is warmer here in Guangzhou, so we are back to the
60’s again, a welcomed relief!
We took the babies to get their visa photo’s today and Lauren
howled the whole time so her picture should be pretty funny when
we get it – scrunched up face wet with tears. Oh my!
The group was very happy to sit down to an American type meal
for dinner at a restaurant called Lucy’s. Those of you who are
in the China Adoption process…..remember you must eat at Lucy’s.
After all the rice dishes you will need this little touch of
“home”. They even have American Apple Pie on the menu. We were
too full from our hamburgers (yay!) to get it today, but Mike is
planning a trip over there for an afternoon snack of apple pie
at some point this weekend.
Tomorrow I will be working with XiXi to complete paperwork for
the Consulate and my poor husband is going to have to take a
trek off of the island into the city by himself. We tried to use
the ATM machine today and put in the wrong code (we can’t read
Chinese & their #’s are inverted) so the machine kept our card.
OMG! The hotel called the bank and the bank has someone coming
out tomorrow to open the machine BUT they won’t give us the card
until one of their bank managers verifies Mike’s identity
against his passport…and they will only do that in person at
their bank, not here at the hotel. Of course, they don’t have a
bank branch on the island, so Mike has to take a taxi off the
island to the bank and then back again. This should be quite the
adventure, LOL!
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Mike & his little ladies from last nights show.
He said it was great!
Poor Lauren didn't feel well this morning.
Check out this sad face & red eyes.
Bringing out the giggles while waiting in the airport.
Ahhh the taste of American food!
This is one happy group of travelers!
We were both too pooped to sit up straight!
The view of the Pearl River
from our room at The White Swan |
