We Made it to Guangzhou!‏

Well, we left Guiyang at about 6:40 p.m. Friday evening and arrived in Guangzhou at about 7:50 p.m. (Jadyn was a trooper on the plane). As happy as we are to have begun the third phase of our China trip, as it brings us one step closer to home and family, we were a little sad to be leaving Jadyn's birth province and the place where we first became a family.

Guangzhou is beautiful - lots of trees and clean smelling air. Something that Beijing did not have and we had a taste of in Guiyang. We checked into our hotel at about 9:45 p.m. and had to meet our new guide, Peter, in the lobby at 8:30 this morning to go to get pictures for Jadyn's visa and then on to the medical exam. Wow, was that an experience! Talk about chaos! Lots and lots of people and crying children everywhere! We were happy that Peter made us arrive early so that we could move through rather quickly. Jadyn did quite well; she just did not like getting undressed:)

After the medical exam, Peter took us to the White Swan hotel and we sat in the lobby to complete what seemed like endless paperwork. There were many legal documents to complete for the Consulate appointment on the 28th. That took about 2 hours and then we came back to the hotel by about 1:30 p.m. We will have free time from now until the 28th when we will have to sit in our hotel room during the Consulate appointment. Peter takes all of the paperwork that we completed to the appointment and should there be any questions they will call us to come to the Consulate. Otherwise, we wait for Peter's call to say that all is good and then we are free for the afternoon. Then, on the 29th at 2:30 p.m. we go to the Consulate to take our oath and all of the official stuff is basically done - only thing left is to get Jadyn's visa so she can come home:)