London's in China

Let me just start off by saying sorry for the delay in posting, yesterday was an all day affair and I mean all day. It was a non-stop non stop-ness. First thing after breakfast, we (and all the other 55 CHI families and any other US parents adopting) had to go and get London’s physical. This is required by the US government (I guess) to get her a visa to enter the US. Man what chaos. This place has 3 main stations and each kid has to go through each. At first they sat us all in this hallway with a big sign that says “please keep your babies quiet.” Yeah like that was going to happen! They hand us each a folder for our baby. With all her information and her two visa pictures. I forgot to mention that yesterday we took London to get a visa photo. It was a mess because the “professional” photographer wouldn’t actually take the shot. Man was he annoying! It was like his memory card was too small and or he didn’t know how to delete one he didn’t like. Christe had to end up sitting with her

Ok, so the pearl market was a bust. This place is like a mini-indoor mall. 5 or 6 floors of semi precious stones (no diamonds) all the same all in large plastic bags with guys sleeping on the bags in some stores. Supposedly this is the wholesale market for all the pearls in China. The river by the island is called the Pearl River. I can’t figure out if it’s because of this mall or the mall has its name because of the river. Either way it was really a waste of time with the exception that Christe found one of jingly bell bracelets that she wanted for London. When we landed yesterday the tarmac looked wet. As a matter of fact, the whole countryside looked wet. We had been told it had been raining and that the heat was supposed to have cooled off by about 10-15 degrees F. We’ve been lucky since our last day in Beijing, we really haven’t seen much rain. We were told that we are in the rainy season, which amounts to the last two weeks in July and the first two weeks in August. Do we have gr