Last post in China

This post is a little late (like 4 days!) sorry, blogger wasn't working well while we were in Disney




Yesterday we had to be in our room around 1130 to wait for a call from our facilitator, and luckily she called us and said that all our paperwork looks good (and I believe that Lilly has been issued her visa - which will will recieve on Friday)). We were also told that on Thursday ((actually only a couple of hours from now for us -- we will go to the US Consulate and we will take our oath.

So other than that we just hung out at the hotel, went for a walk around the area - saw a neat park along the water, and tried to dodge falling bamboo scaffolding. They are doing a lot of construction/ repainting around here and they use bamboo as thier scaffolding. So right now everyone is preparing for the Chinese New Year and they are tearing down all the scaffolding -- bassically, break it apart and let it fall to the ground - when done, pick up all the pieces off the ground - kinda scary.

At any rate, today we pretty much did the same thing -- walked around the hotel, took some more pics, went to see the pools, tried to go to the top floor -- apparently it's a special floor as there was someone waiting at the elevator and told us that we couldn't come up here - I think he said to go to the second floor... not sure why, but my guess is he didn't speak much English.

So for now we will be getting ready to go to the Consulate in about an hour, I think we will be getting together with the group again for dinner.

We start our Journey back tomorrow and we are very excited!!! We fly to Beijing Friday night, then leave from Beijing around 1100 on Saturday -- we should arive in DC on Saturday around 2pm, which will be a little weird since we will lose more than 24 hours. Of course that is if the airport is open by then, I here we will be coming back to 2-3 feet of snow! Should be interesting digging our car out -- hopefully the hotel will lend us a shovel.

Enjoy the pics