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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Originally posted on Monday, November 14, 2005
Monday, November 14, 2005 8:46 AM CST
Subject: Exam Day
This morning was our first morning in the White Swan and the breakfast buffet here is absolutely wonderful. The breakfast buffet we had in Beijing was nice, but was getting a bit old after 8 days. So the White Swan Breakfast buffet has been a very nice and welcome change.
After breakfast this morning, we noticed that it was raining, so that put a damper on our shopping plans. Instead we came back to our room, gathered our dirty laundry and Steve took it to one of the shops across the street from our hotel to have it washed. They do a very good job for a very good price.
Then he took Xue Zheng downstairs to the Mattel Playroom that is in the lower level of our hotel. While they were playing Lisa spent time organizing some of the paperwork we needed to get ready for our Visa Appointment at the U.S. Consulate.
The rest of our group showed up from Nanchang at about 12:30 pm today. All of their girls are just adorable! We thought Nikole would be very happy to meet everyone and we had been telling them what a happy little girl she is, then when it came time to meet them all, we had to wake her from her nap. Needless to say, she was less than thrilled. She was a very unhappy for the next hour or so, since she had not had enough sleep. After we joined up with them we went at 1:30 pm to go get the Visa photos taken of the girls and then we all went to lunch. After lunch we walked to the clinic for the girls to get their medical exam. The medical exam was not Nikoles favorite thing in the world, but went as well as could be expected. Because of Nikole's special need (VSD - Ventricular Septal Defect), they had two doctors lisen to her heart and they both said everything sounded fine. They also told us the currently weighs in at 28.7 pounds.
After the exam we were all free to go. Our guide asked us to be in our room shortlly after 5:00 PM so she could go over all our Visa paperwork with us. And she was also having Pizza Hut Pizza delivered to our room tonight. We will all meet up and eat as a group again tomorrow evening for supper.
All the rest of our free time was spent shopping. We have ordered a couple granite etchings, and then tonight we also bought several little silk dresses for both Emilie and Xue Zheng.
Emilie, mommy and daddy love you and miss you very much. We enjoyed talking to you on the phone again tonight.
We will be home in 3 days.
Love in Christ,
Steve, Lisa and Xue Zheng
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