Monday, April 1, 2013

Consulate Appt.....DONE!

Monday April 1st, 2013
     We were up bright and early this morning for our Consulate Appt. at 8:30. Much different from 10 years ago. We are not staying at the White Swan on Shamian Island   this time and the Consulate has moved to a different building than before. We were sent upstairs with about 20 other adoptive families.  We took our "oath" and then an officer checked all of Sophia's documents for her travel visa. That process took about an hour and then we had the rest of the day to do what we wanted. We decided to take the drive to Shamian Island and see how things might have changed. We recognized the medical examination building we went to with Olivia. "Jennifer's Place" had moved. This is where we bought the chinese silk dresses for the babies. We watched some people playing Mahjong and watched LOTS of people young and not so young playing jianzi (Chinese hacky sack).  It was amazing to see how long they could keep that thing in the air. We also watched some folks doing tai chi . We had lunch at Subway and then headed back to the hotel for naptime. ;o) Tonight we ventured out again with the Garner family and found Burger King. Everyone is feeling better. Terry and I both have a head cold but the girls are doing better. Olivia ate pretty good today but she still had the fear of getting sick everytime she ate. :( We walked around the hotel thinking the pool was inside but the pool is outside. Liv thought about swimming but she DID NOT want to wear the swim cap again. LOL!
Here are a few pictures of our day....

Consulate Appointment

Thank you Sandy Hunter for my new dress!!

Crowd outside the Consulate

Sporting my RED, WHITE and BLUE!!

Van ride to our appt.

Getting sleepy....

White Swan being renovated

This is how "lil miss" sleeps. Hilarious!

Playing Jianzi (hacky sack)

on Shamian Island

Olivia made a friend...

Sleeping in the stroller


Being silly with big sister

"this is how I roll"

Beautiful arrangements in the hotel lobby


Playing in the hotel room
This girl is cra cra!

I love the animals the Easter Bunny left me

4 comments:

angelkt said...

Kim,
Oh mY!!! Alexa can't stop laughing at the pic of Sophia sleeping with the blanket in mouth!! Too cute! Poor Livy..tell her we are so sorry she got Terry's bug. I hope you and Sophia avoided it. Recieved email from Amy this am and all I can saw is wow...we wil talk when you return and are over jet lag call me :o) Love and hugs to you all safe journey back!

Hugs,
Laurie

Kim said...

Hey Laurie! So far so good, for Sophia and myself not being sick. Amy said Olivia and Alexa's orphanage had many items for us including lots of pis. ;o)

Kim said...

oops, I meant PICS!

angelkt said...

Kim,
I received email from Amy today...not alot of pics(guess they wanted to keep originals she said) :o(..got one via email of Lexa and Livy in walkers together and then there was one of liv alone in same walker looked like they were taken just before we got them..but its one I did not have...and she said they did not have Lexas finding outfit but only a hat...they will mail everything to you ..let me know if you need $ to mail to us ...even tho its not what we had originally hoped its more than we had and Alexa cant wait to see the stuff. :o) Love the photos of Sophia eating and maybe next time the Allen's and Eiermans will travel together back to the girls homeland and vist all 3 orphanges could be an awesome trip :o)

Hugs,
Laurie