Cody
Look at those dimples!!!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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Consulate Appointment and Shamian Island
Today we had to get up early and go to the American Consulate for the Oath and Interview. The oath is just stating that all our paperwork is honest. We then waited for for our name to be called and went up to the window while the lady looked over our paperwork. She was an American and spoke Chinese. Although Cody could not understand her. As we got ready to walk away from the window Cody realized she did not give our passports back so he told her. She thought that was very smart of Cody to realize that. We were thankful also. We came back to the hotel just to grab our camera's and headed to Shamian Island. This Island use to be very popular to adoptive families. The White Swan Hotel was very popular for families to stay. It has been closed for remodeling now for 2 years and will remain closed another year. The shop owners on the Island are feeling it. They were very thankful for the business we gave them. I made Cody pose with some of the statue's and he had to be silly but that's ok we like silly. Dave told me he is to old to be posing with the statues. Kim and Kasey were glad to do it last trip. We had lunch at Lucy's we ordered double cheeseburgers. They were huge, I took one of my pieces of meat out. Cody went to take a bite of his and both pieces of meat fell our on the ground. I was happy to share one of mine with him. When we were ready to go Cody hailed us a cab and took us back to the hotel. Cody was anxious to go swimming so when we got back they went swimming. We are now trying to figure out what we should have for dinner. Nobody wants pizza again, and we have a hard time ordering at a restaraunt. We are just gonna go out and see what we find. Well we ate a restaraunt in the hotel. It was pretty good. Cody got fish (head on). I just got the seasonal vegtables and rice. Dave had shrimp with bamboo shoots. We did all enjoy our meal. I really need to learn to cook more chinese food. Tomorrow we are pretty much free all day. Our guide just drops off Cody's passport with his visa inside and some other paperwork we need to give the imigration people at O'Hare when we land. I can't beleive we will be home in a couple of days. Cody has yet to show any kind of saddness. I would say he has a smile on that face about 90% of the time. Oh how his life has changed overnight!!!
Monday, November 12, 2012
Museum and Pearl River Cruise
Today was a pretty low key day. We started out with breakfast at 8. Some new friends we met in Hong Kong invited us to sit with them for breakfast. They just adopted a beautiful little girl. It was nice to have some good conversation. We have been at this hotel for over a week so we do have a bit of a routine for breakfast. Cody has seen how the servers come and pick up your plates when you are finished. He is always so helpful. Today he noticed that several of us had finished our breakfast and our plates had not been cleared. Cody collected our plates for us and walked them over to the waiter. It was really cute. After breakfast we went to a nearby museum with a tomb in it. I don't think it was Cody's thing. We did not stay to long. On the way back Cody wanted some chestnuts someone was roasting. He talked the lady preparing them and took care of the money. Dave just had to open his wallet. They were pretty tasty. When we got back to the room the cleaning lady was in cleaning our room. Cody likes to talk to her. He then offered her some chestnuts and she took two from him. He is really so sweet. I took a nap this afternoon while Dave and Cody walked to McDonalds. Our guide Jocelyn came to our room and we did some paperwork. We are all ready for our Consulate appointment tomorrow.
At 5:45 we met our guide and a bigger CCAI group in the lobby to go on the Pearl River Cruise. The cruise starts out with a buffet dinner. I have to say not my favorite meal. Actually it was my least favorite. Cody took the chicken head and chicken feet. The head he ate the comb of the chicken right off and said it was so good. I am not sure he will get chicken head at home. Although we do have plenty of chickens. Maybe that mean rooster we have. The lights on the river were beautiful and Cody really enjoyed the ride. We all really enjoyed it. Toward the end of the night they put on some show it was really weird a dancing pig with ....well you be the judge. After the cruise we came back to the hotel and are now getting ready for tomorrow. We need to get up early, we need to leave the hotel at 8:00 sharp.
At 5:45 we met our guide and a bigger CCAI group in the lobby to go on the Pearl River Cruise. The cruise starts out with a buffet dinner. I have to say not my favorite meal. Actually it was my least favorite. Cody took the chicken head and chicken feet. The head he ate the comb of the chicken right off and said it was so good. I am not sure he will get chicken head at home. Although we do have plenty of chickens. Maybe that mean rooster we have. The lights on the river were beautiful and Cody really enjoyed the ride. We all really enjoyed it. Toward the end of the night they put on some show it was really weird a dancing pig with ....well you be the judge. After the cruise we came back to the hotel and are now getting ready for tomorrow. We need to get up early, we need to leave the hotel at 8:00 sharp.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
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