We are in Guangzhou! The final leg of the adoption!

Go to www.lavida.org, and click on the red letters in the upper right if you want to follow this trip. The photos are updated almost daily for our group. Thanks.



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This is Kevin, drinking snake wine. I thought it was a gimmick but learned that it is very real. Today in the airport in Guilin, on the way to Guangzhou, I went shopping. There were bags of assorted seafoods. Turtles, snakes, sea horses, centipedes, and starfish occupied these sealed bags in a food-type store. I asked our guide what the deal was, and she said it was a home-made wine kit. Echhh.


We now have a medical exam, a passport photo appointment, some stuff at the consulate for Amy's visa, and some other things. Other than that, we have a few days to enjoy the new love of our lives and prepare for our new lives at home. China is so interesting and overstimulatiing. We appreciate Linda for updating the blog, and each and every email and comment we've received.




Thanks to Tanta Linda for towing the line on the blog while we were in Beijing, Nanning and Guilin, and couldn't access the blog. An observation about Guangzhou: Because all U.S. Chinese Adoptions are finalized here where the US Consulate of China is, there are a gazillijillion Chinese babies with Americans on this Shamian Island where the White Swan hotel is. The retail industry around the hotel caters to the adoptions. It is different.