We are in Guangzhou Now! 1/26/2008

At 4 pm, The Franz’ and Szalai’s we left our hotel and headed to the airport. The Murphy’s already left earlier this morning. At the airport, Jenny made a few phone calls. She called her orphanage and connected with her Big Brother and Big Sister. She was excited to tell them about her new family and said good bye to them. She also talked to them. She thanked them for being friends with Jenny and promised to keep in touch with them. Jenny also called one of the orphanage workers who often took her home at night and on the weekends or took her on family vacations. Jenny had talked very fondly about her. We have a picture of Jenny with her when Jenny was about 3-4 years old. Jenny was excited about the airplane ride. She kept herself busy with Legos.

Sue’s classmate, Hao Xing came specially to see goodbye to us at the airport and gave Sue a nice cashmere sweater. It was so sweat of him. At lunch time, two of her classmates called from distance. They were talking about class reunion in the near future. I guess we will have another trip to China soon.

We have had great time in Hohhot for these short four days! We will come back.

The flight was uneventful. She was very excited about going to a different place. Anna had a good long nap on the airplane. They both showed more of their personalities and they both get along well most of the time. We arrived Guangzhou around 10pm. Sue's sister and her niece was already waiting for us at our hotel. They arrived yesterday. Sue's brother in law and nephew will come tomorrow. They will stay with us until we leave for USA. We are kind of disappointed that the weather is not very good, but we really appreciated it that it is not -19F anymore. It was 45F at 10pm, wet and damp though. Hope we will have some good weather. We had to switch a bigger room so by the time we settled, it was way pass midnight. We will stay here for the next 7 days.