Jay and I cringed as we got on the bus, this morning. Everyone was complaining of fevers and coughing...even the last two people that were sightseeing with us, yesterday. Although we felt bad for them, we DO NOT WANT TO GET SICK! So we kept a polite distance and moved through the US Consulate. Everything there went off without a hitch and we were back at the hotel by 1000. Unfortunately, because everyone else was sick, the bus was deviated to the local hospital, so no visit to the medicine market, after all.
Therefore, Jay and I strapped on our backpacks and took ourselves on a four-hour walking tour of the city. We started with Yuexiu Park (the one we visited the very first day) but took a different path. It was quite warm and humid, today, so we were pretty sweaty by the time we made it up the first of many hills and monuments in the park. We walked past the original wall of the city (from like 1600) with very old banyan trees growing right out from the sides of it. Kai walked a good portion of our tour in the park. He also feels the need to pick up every leaf and rock he sees:-) You'll see in a couple of the pictures, below, that he had taken a leaf and was picking up little tiny pebbles and loading them on the leaf. He then carried the leaf up a huge set of stairs, so that he could dump the pebbles over a wall...then proceed to sweep the steps with this leaf. Several people stopped, laughed, and were trying to talk to him. It took us a while to convince him to leave the rest of the leaves there. On that note, I had to take a picture of the brooms that are consistently used, here. While technology is quite advanced in many places, these brooms are the only ones ever used! If only I could pack one for Kai, my steps may get swept, yet!
The other pictures are just random shots from around the park and the city: a bird that we have seen everywhere, tango dancing in the park, a wanna-be-Starbucks, and some stuff I thought was cool.
Tomorrow, our bus for the airport leaves at 6:00 pm and we are sooooo anxious to get home to Cam and Cael! Please keep us in your prayers as we prepare for a 13 hour flight from here to LAX, make it through customs and security, and another 5 hour flight on to Memphis. We know it will all be worth it...just don't want to make it a miserable flight for the rest of those on board!
I plan to make one final post from China, tomorrow, but until then...Good Night!
Yay! You're almost home! I'll pray for your flight tomorrow & your family's transition with Kai.
ReplyDeleteHope all goes as smooth coming home as it did traveling to China...connecting flights, customs, baggage, and praying no one gets sick. We have loved all the blogs and am so anxious to hear about Kai meeting (in person) his brothers for the first time, and of course the Border Collie Rhett.
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