Travel day/Guangzhou

The last few days have been an adventure.  Friday we prepared to leave Jack's province of Henan to go to Guangzhou where the U.S. Consulate is located.  It was a busy day of packing up our hotel room getting ready to leave.  I was ready to get to a warmer climate.  We left our hotel at 3:00pm for a 6:15pm flight departure.  We checked our bags and went through security.  Then we had to say goodbye to our CCAI reps.  They have been wonderful!  I was truly sad to say goodbye, they were a huge blessing to us in our adoption of Jack.  After we made it through security we had about a hour wait until we boarded our plane.  In the middle of the airport was a little playground.  Needless to say our group stopped and took over the playground.  Jack loved it!!
 

Well these were the last of the smiles for a while.  After playing and playing and then waiting, we found out our flight was late.  An hour late!!  We finally boarded the plane around 7:15pm.  No one had dinner and we thought for a 2 hour flight, there would not be any food.  Much to our surprise, we were fed dinner.  Only China flying treats you so good.  There is no such thing on a 2 hour domestic flight in the U.S.  Before dinner was served we gave Jack some plain white bread.  Since he has not been keeping food down, we had been trying to keep his diet very plain.  He had half a bottle in the morning and congee(watery rice) and Cheerios.  He did great and had not vomited all day.  He spit up a little at breakfast, but that was very mild.  I think that was due to his congestion.  No sooner had I started to eat my dinner and started to share some plain white rice with him, he started puking again.  Did I mention we were on a plane with seats that packed us in like sardines?  We got passed that and he seemed ok.  I was given a plastic bag that I kept just in case.  After we finished dinner he started puking again.  I had already handed the flight attendant the plastic bag back.  He started walking past me again and I grabbed it out of his hand.  Hannah and I had been catching the vomit with our hands.  He finally stopped and we were descending down to land.  We unloaded off the plane and Jack and I were covered in vomit.  I think the only fly in the whole airport found us.  We found our guides and slowly made our way to the bus for our 40 min. drive to the hotel. The hotel is a Marriott and is definintely the best we have stayed at this trip.  The hotel has the bell boys deliver our groups bags to each room.  Logically one might think that they would see what bags belong to what room, right?  Not in China.  They take the whole groups luggage and go room to room to see whose luggage is whose.  Wouldn't you guess that we, who had bathed our puking boy and needed jammies, were the last to receive our luggage?  Then to top it off, our luggage was tied up with plastic ties.  We had scissors, in our luggage.  They weren't much help.  Finally everyone got to bed, Doug and I the last, by 1:15am..We were wiped out. 

Saturday was not very exciting. Jack had his physical and I guess he checked out okay.  He was not too happy though.  We walked around a little bit on Shamian Island after the medical exam.  We didn't stay too long.  We then grabbed a taxi, which was pretty uneventful.  I have heard of others dodging in and out of traffic when traveling by taxi.  We then went to the hotel for a few hours, then to dinner with the group.  I am happy to say, Jack has had 3 bottles and congee today and has kept it all down!  Now it is just coming out the other end. lol!  I have run out of laundry for him.  We sent out our laundry to be washed, but won't receive it back until tomorrow afternoon.  I had to buy some more clothes for him today to get us through tomorrow. 

Casey and Grace, we love and miss you soooooo much!  4 more days until we are all back together again!!  We can't wait to hug and kiss you!!

Here are some pictures from the last few days.

Our guides in Zhengzhou

Not happy!

Jack has learned a few English words. " Car" being his favorite.  He loves to watch cars.

Shamian Island

Jack is learning what kisses are now.  He occassionally will give one to mommy. He gave Daddy his first one tonight at dinner.

Mommy's first Starbucks in China!!  It was yummy!!