Our wonderful little hotel had a "roof top garden" which consisted of four plots of green, green grass looking out over the Guang Zhou skyline. Rachel thought we needed family night with our left over pizza hut from lunch, so we rounded ourselves up and had a little family picnic. One of the housekeeping staff watched over us closely . . . assuredly wondering what these crazy foreigners might be doing! (yes, i was already in my PJ's when Ra made this great decision, so on went one of Jerry's big shirts over them...lest you think my fashion sense has gone up in smoke in the last 10 months =-)
Friday was "Children's Day" in China. All the kids were out of school and many were out playing in this little park area. Ra was thrilled to have some friends to play with!
Guang Zhou was the last stop on our adoption trip nearly three years ago. Rachel loves to hear the "precious baby girl" story, which includes a visit to the doctor in Guang Zhou, Shaiman Island where he checked out her " head and her toes, her fingers and her nose" to make sure she was ready for the long flight back to America. We went back there to do some shopping (they cater greatly to adoptive parents). This store was there three years ago, the owner was from the same province as Rachel and gave her a beautiful silver bracelet. We have a picture of me with them from three years ago in Rachel's first year scrapbook, so we thought we'd take another with these girls, one of which just moved to Guang Zhou from Changsha! crazy.
The riverboat. Remember this AHH families? Our last night in China, I think, and we took the riverboat cruise. All the girls (and parents, I believe) were dead tired...we decided that since we don't get to see you all this month at the reunion, we would just take a little trip down memory lane and share it with you! OH! how we wish we could come to the reunion! Please send pictures!!
We didn't take a picture of it, cuz it's kind of a gross story, but we even went down the street on Shaiman Island with all the bronze statues (do you remember that John and Rita) where we first were able to "clean out" Rachel's nose! She has always had a dry nose issue, nose bleeds and the like, and those first days I thought she had some kind of breathing issue . . . but walking down that street, Daddy finally got a huge hunk of dried mucos out of her and she could breath without sounding like darth vador . . . ahhh, the memories!
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