She travelled like a champ....

Hello from Guangzhou! Like I said earlier, I have not been looking forward to coming back here, but now it's acutally very nice! We can hang out with all the friends we made, and there are adoptive families EVERYWHERE! We didn't see as many when we were here a week ago, and I thought that this hype had just been a huge exaggeration. It wasn't. I stand corrected. Maybe it was because we were here on a weekend when most people had already left, plus the week of the 4th was coming up, I have no idea. Now there are MANY here. So we get to experience the bond of the adoption world, which is kind of fun.
But anyway, our travels were very smooth. Nina slept on the way to the airport, and most of the way to Guangzhou (only a 1 hour flight anyway). She continued to be pretty happy, EXCEPT when it was time to put on her seatbelt. NOT. IMPRESSED! During Miss Nina's in-flight beauty rest, Mike and I watched a program on his IPOD about the history of China. WOW! I had read some about it, but this explained a lot of things in fascinating details. So so interesting. And heartbraking. Unbelievable the sacrifice that has gone into the building of the Great Wall for example. Driven by the desire of fame and greatness, the people suffered horribly.
We arrived at the Victory hotel and had dinner later on with our friends A and S and family. We just love hanging out with them! Nina got pretty tired, so I took her back to the hotel while the crew partied a while longer at Lucy's ( A Western style restaurant her on Shamian Island). Oh, I almost forgot - Nina LOVES french fries. And LOTS of Ketchup. Elia, watch out, your sister is a dipper just like you!!
It is very hot and humid here, so we both took a bath and she crashed shortly thereafter.
I'm just amazed how well she travelled. It was just no big deal to her. She was not scared of going on the airplane or anything! What a resilient and brave little girl.
Enjoy the pictures!

A field of Lotus on the way to the airport / Lotusblumen auf dem Weg zum Flughafen

Goodbye Daphne / Abschied von Daphne

Waiting for our flight / Nina in der Abflughalle

Here is the Madface, when it was time to buckle up / Nina wollte nicht angeschnallt sein!

Goodbye, Hunan! Auf Wiedersehen!

Arrived! / Angekommen!

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