Sunday, March 29, 2009

Guangzhou Day 2

Good Afternoon from Guangzhou! There is not much new to report from here today. This morning, I accompanied Shiyan to the US consulate to redo some paperwork. Apparently there was a comma in the wrong place on one piece of paper that needed a notary. The trip there took about an hour and then the waiting and the paperwork itself took about an hour and a half. The paperwork was about 5 minutes and the waiting made up the other portion of time, but all is finished now and we are on the way to be officially finished here in China. Our whole group will return to the consulate tomorrow for our swearing in, or taking the oath to provide for our children. I was the only one that needed to go from our group, but thankfully, there were 2 others from another group (China Adoption with Love) that needed to redo the same paperwork, so we were able to share a cab ride back to the hotel.
The cab ride started out somewhat interesting. I handed the cab driver the card with our hotel name on it. He then handed it back twice, so we were a little leary as to whether he knew exactly where he was taking us. We made it back safely and in a timely manner.
After returning and Caleb's nap, we took a walk to a park down the street, where Caleb played on a slide and on some other equipment with a little girl.
Our group is planning to go out for Chinese dinner tonight, so after a brief stop in the playroom, we are getting ready to meet our group.
Have a great night as we look forward to our last day here tomorrow!

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