Day 11 in Guangzhou- full free day

Today has been a nice laid back day. We began the day without having to rush to be anywhere at any certain time, so we had a nice leisurely breakfast by the waterfall. It was beautiful...until I spilled a full glass of orange juice on me and my feshly laundered jeans and t-shirt. The remainder of the meal was a bit of a sticky mess. While we had to be in our room from 10:00 to 12:00 to wait for a call from Dennis, and hope to not get one because that would mean the U.S. Consulate was requesting more information, Trey and Dillon worked on their school work. We didn't receive a call from Dennis needing additional information, so we celebrated by taking the kids to the small playground on-site again. They all enjoyed themselves there. Trey and Dillon have been playing with their new Chinese version of the hackey sack all day today. (See pictures of them in the hall below).

After that, we got a taxi to take us to a mall, but we ended up at a textiles mall. It had all of the fabrics and wholesale home goods you could imagine, but that is not what we were in the market for. We hailed another taxi and asked him to take us back to the plaza we went to day before yesterday. We bought a few things there and Terrell enjoyed the bargaining process immensely.

We had dinner tonight at the revolving restaurant on the 30th floor of the hotel. It was a huge seafood buffet and I did not come close to eating enough to justify the price we paid for it. Oh well. It was the experience of it, right? When we first sat down, Trey, Dillon and Terrell all decided that the floor wasn't moving but instead the outside walls and the interior buffet/restaurant section was moving. I disagreed and they argued. The weird thing was that when they came back from filling their plates on the buffet the first time, the surrounding buildings had begun to move too!!! Isn't that weird? Case closed. Coee loved the boiled shrimp and was not a fan of the chocolate cake. Doesn't like chocolate? We will definitely have to work on that. It will come with time.

We are back in the room now. Coee has had a bath and Trey and Dillon are doing a bit of school work again before bed. We are free tomorrow until 3:00 pm, when all of the families will go to the U.S. Consulate to do the adoption swearing in ceremony. Most families are leaving out the day after that, Thursday morning. We will be leaving Friday morning, so we still have two days left to shop and one empty suitcase to fill. We've got our list and work cut out for us.

Again, thank you for all of the comments. They make our day. Keep them coming!! See you all in three days!

Trey and Dillon's class, here are the questions of the day:
What is the longest river in China?
Is it longer or shorter than the longest river in the US?
Bonus points if you know the longest in the US without looking it up!





This is Trey and Dillon playing Chinese hacky sack in our hallway of the hotel. The hacky sack is very much like a badmitton birdie with additional weight on the nose of it.

Trey and Dillon fed the fish after breakfast this morning. The fish are big fans of the bread at the buffet!



Trey and Dillon helped Coee go "up" the slide several times today!


This is Liwan Plaze and is a huge shopping area attached to a few malls all around it! There were thousands of people there today, which is pretty common because there are thousands of people everywhere in a city of 12 million! One mall that we went into has all jewelry on one side of the circular plaza and clothes and miscellaneous stuff on the other side. The jewelry stores are incredible with 3' tall, 18" diameter bags full of pearls! The workers are constantly working packing boxes to ship to stores all over the world.




Coee loves her some bathtime!!! This is the sink in our bathroom.