According to our guide, most Chinese families take it easy on Sunday and spend the day with each other. We had the day to ourselves and enjoyed a relaxing time. Lanhua is tolerating our inability to speak Chinese and somehow, we manage to get our points across. We walked through a busy local market area with both dry and wet shops this morning. Wow and yikes. Stating the obvious: this culture is so very different.
Tomorrow we head to the countryside with our guide and her family. Tuesday, it's the American Consulate, Weds we do some swearing and get Lanhua's passport, and Thursday we pick-up her Visa.
Reading this has become a highlight of the day....... Love the pictures, especially love were Ann is giving the "thumbs up" which, I assume, means "All's well!", in her experienced opinion. Andy is dying to buy Lanhua some sneakers..... He's also loving these blogs. G
ReplyDeletewe really are enjoying all the pictures and notes. jackson just informed me that he will go to china when he is older-maybe his cousin can go along and be his guide. looks like everything is going along great, we just want you to get home soon!
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p.s. i can't believe you are waiting until wednesday for the swearing. i would have been cussing the whole time-take advantage while she doesn't know those words.