Chevalier Hotel Xinyang

... over for the catch and steals it away. We have to learn sharing! Everything still goes in the mouth as she's teething pretty good!

The kids and I had to go pick out some new dresses/clothes for Emma to wear as the rest of the clothes we brought for her were a bit too big. We scored some really cute dresses for her to wear today for her check up and the rest of the week. Check out the pics!

We had our medical check up in the ...

... I am a stickler for time. I guess it kind of borders on obsession. I have to generally allow for at least an hour extra on top of a half an hour waiting time for any journey. No matter how small. I hate being late. This has started to grate on Sarah a little, none more so than in Xi'an.

Xi'an is a fairly big city with a lot of tourists passing through it on a daily basis, so you would expect a nice clean well kept train station. Oh dear how wrong you would be. For all these ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Time! The very grains we are made to rely on to give us some sort of structure to our lives. Both our days and nights pass us by under the ungrateful and greedy eyes of time. Forever taking from us, yet never giving in return. Our sands begin to flow from our very first breath. When we give birth we give new life. Yet strangely at the same time are we not also taking the ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Here I sit in Xinyang City. Strangely for me I have seen naught of it. Except for the train station, a small rice eatery and my filthy hotel room! I spent yesterday with Luo Wei watching the Olympics and we then headed out to for a walk around the stores where I got Luo Wei a new top and pants just because she is a Happy Little Peach and she makes me a Happy Peach! Around half ...

So it was onto a part of our China tour I was particularly looking forward to - the three gorges cruise. Before leaving Xi'an though I got a great example of how friendly the chinese people are. While having an early morning walk near the city walls I had a sit down on a bench and a tramp came over looking very curiously at me. I said nee-how (thats hello remember) and he responded with a babble of chinese that I didn't ...

This morning all the paperwork went to the consulate with our guides. There was no problems so we should have Jaymee's entrance visa tomorrow. It has been a good trip. All are tired and a little cranky at this point. Tomorrow while we wait for the visa ...

We are now safely in Guangzhou. This is a big city with many Western influences. Even during the time of Mao when China was closed to all Westerners some were here in Guangzhou. We did her medical check today and LOTS of shopping! Hope you are all doing well! I will write more soon! Amber

We went on a tour of the orphanage today. It was nicer than I was expecting. It was obvious the staff and the Director care for the children very much. They will not allow us to meet the foster family but they have taken good care of her and that is evident. We got to tour a 400 year old Buddist temple, eat some more Chinese food ...

This has been a very emotional 2 days. Jaymee was terrified of us at first and cried some. She did better than we were expecting thanks to lots of prayers from many of you. She is now taking a nap with Grandma after a long day. Today we went back to the Adoption Affairs office and signed all the paperwork. Tomorrow it gets notarized and is offical. She is mostly ours now. We have her dressed up in some cute outfits we ...

We arrived here on Sunday, 1/15 @ near midnight. The flight was delayed for "big fog in Wuhan." Monday Morning we left the hotel (which is very, very nice by the way) and drove across town to the adoption center @ 9:00. We took her back with us to the hotel and she has ...