We've just been hanging around the hotel the last couple of days, and exploring the neighborhood a bit. Which reminds me, I still need to write a post about Guangzhou. I'll get to it eventually! Here are a few pictures from today.
Caylie loves the hotel playroom! She kept locking herself out of this castle, so Justin had to keep going over the top to let her in.
Big brothers are nice to have sometimes. :)
Girlfriend LOVES raisins! I had brought some with me on the plane and discovered that she liked them. The funny thing was trying to get our guide to understand what they were when we were at the store! We found them eventually!
Playing with cute friends Bennett and Beka-Joy at the pool.
Studying the poolside menu.
Justin being silly.
Tomorrow morning we will have our Consulate Appointment at the U.S. Embassy and on Thursday our guide will pick up Caylie JiuChang's visa. When we land in San Francisco on Monday, she will become an American citizen.
Yay! So excited for her citizenship! What a very grand God blessing. :)
ReplyDeleteJoy, I have been following along each and every day. So so sorry I haven't posted. You were so sweet in providing some uplifting comments during our recent travels. You are about to learn how exhausted the next month of your life will be :) Caylie is so incredibly precious. She is just a doll. Oh can I relate to your spunky lil' one !! We have had our share of challenges but are now home just over 3 weeks and feel like we are starting to better understand each other. Bottom line is that our kids are downright scared out of their minds. It is such a vulnerable age. Not quite old enough to understand what a family is. A friend from church who is an adoptive mama and also a social worker who was blessed to do a training under Karen Purivs encouraged me that my goal is to teach Kinley that we are their to meet her needs but let her know we are the ones in control. Can't say we have gotten to that point yet but we are making progress. It looks like you have had a great trip. I am so happy for you and hope you blog once you are home. I would love to stay in touch even if just via FB or email. Enjoy your last couple of days and safe travels (I was totally freaked about the seat belt too~she found it fun to put on and off which helped. I just tried to time it that the seatbelt was "on" when the flight attendant walked by to check and then didn't worry too much about it. I also noticed that Kinley seemed to listen well to other Chinese people. I had the flight attendant to tell Kinley that she had to wear her seat belt right before we took off on our big flight).
ReplyDeleteKeep the cute pictures coming~
paige