Last Day in Chongqing

I should have posted this before the Guangzhou post. By the way if you have emailed us and we have not responded, we are not getting the emails. For some reason there has been a problem with us recovering all of our mail.
These photos are from our last day in Chongqing. We went to a park on the North side of the river that overlooks the point where the two rivers meet. Chongqing is very foggy this time of year.


The park stretches on for miles and is very beautiful. You can see the mountains that surround the city.

For our last dinner Mei took us to a restaurant that served the "hot pot" for which Chongqing is famous for. The pot in front of us has two sauces which they bring to a boil. They then cook a variety of items in the sauce at the table and you spoon out what you like. If you look you can see the eel and squid that we ate as well as the beef and pork. It was a very spicy meal.

Guangzhou

We are in Guangzhou (pronounced Gwong joe) where the American Consulate is located. This is the last leg of journey. Here we have to get Nathan’s visa so he can enter the USA.

We were sad to say goodbye to Mei on Monday morning. We are going to try to keep in touch via email. She made our time in Chongqing very special.

Our trip here went pretty well. Nathan was good for his first plane ride. We kept a steady supply of bottles for him and he didn’t cry much. The flight was only about 90 minutes. I hope the flights home go so well.

When we got off the plane we immediately met Elvin our new guide. He is a sweet young man with and endearing habit of giggling after everything he says. We went immediately to the photo shop to get Nathan’s visa photo. From there we went to a clinic to get the medical examination required for him to get his visa. That took about 20 minutes. There were about a dozen US families with their babies waiting for the exam and there was much screaming. Nathan added his own noise to the melee when the doctor looked at him.


Today we go to pick up his visa and that is the last step. Tomorrow we leave for home! We have to leave the hotel at 0530 tomorrow for the airport. We will be traveling for about 30 hours straight I believe so we are not looking forward to the trip but we will be so glad to get home.

We are now staying at the famous White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou where most of the American couples stay who adopt from China. Breakfast this morning was like a baby convention. We couldn't help but stare at the dozens of babies and families. It is so different from Chongqing where we were the only Americans we encountered.