Guangzhou

We checked out of our hotel in Hefei and headed to the airport at 4:30pm on Friday.   We arrived in plenty of time and headed upstairs to the gate.  The airport was very small and was lacking air conditioning.  It became extremely warm with so many people.  The flight before ours to Guangzhou was delayed due to the weather so we thought we would be delayed also.   Needless to say it was delayed...9 hours and it was an extremely L-O-N-G nine hours!!!  By the time the airport cleared out of all the other flights that had left and the only ones in the airport were the ones on our flight.  We tried to curl up on the chairs and sleep a little but that was not working.  I could barely breathe because they allowed smoking there!  Finally, at 2:15am our flight took off.  Didn't expect to take a red-eye for a 2 hour flight to Guangzhou.  Thankfully, Paityn did really well and seemed to enjoy flying...Praise the Lord!!!  By the time we landed, got our luggage, found our guide and driver and got to the hotel it was 5:45am.  We decided we should probably just stay up so we went to the room dropped our things off and went to breakfast bright and early.  Paityn, Mom and I had to meet Helen our guide in the lobby to take Paityn for her medical visa physical appointment.  She became extremely upset when the needle came out for the TB test, but we made it through!  We went back to the hotel and rested until we met Helen for a Pearl River Cruise with local cuisine for dinner.  By this time I was having a hard time keeping my eyes open and felt like I was suffering from jet-lag once again! :)

Today we did a bit more sight seeing at a couple different buddist temples and headed to a Cantonese lunch.  We were just in the room resting and about 4:00pm it was like a switch was turned on Paityn started playing with Madison, she let Matt hug her, started blowing kisses, giving high fives and even spoke a few words!!!!  Within the next hour Matt was picking her up and she was not letting him alone!  Praise the Lord...this is a HUGE answer to prayer!  Continue to pray that each day stays like that and even gets better!  Tonight we decided to walk down to Subway and it was nice to have a familiar face to join us.  Nathan Rohrer is here in Guangzhou for work and was able to come hang out for a couple hours with us.

Overall today was a great day and we pray that it continues for the days ahead! We head back to the clinic tomorrow to have the TB test checked and then off to the zoo to see more Giant Pandas :) Will try to post soon again. Have a good day!

Pearl River Cruise & Dinner

An artist at one of the temples...he painted the girls pictures with only his hands!!

It was amazing!

Having a taste of some yummy flower tea

Our local cuisine Cantonese lunch with our guide Helen

Hanging out at Starbuck's after dinner with Nathan joining us!!