A Clear Sign
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Day 8--Guangzhou
Today (Saturday) was "business" day and Sinclair was miserable for most of it. She and Brevin now have the cold that the family has been passing around. Poor Brevin has had body aches and congestion since yesterday when we had to fly here. So Matt and the three big kids stayed back at the hotel while Anita took Sinclair out for her Visa photo and medical examination. Last night and today Sinclair's nose was running like a faucet. She usually naps in the morning around 10am and had just dozed off on the bus when it was time to have her photo taken. This picture leading into the medical exam was the last content moment of the day.
The medical exam included a weight and height check, a look into Sinclair's eyes, ears and throat and then a quick look at her body. She screamed about the ear check and Anita had to hold her really tightly to let the doctor finish looking. She was so tired and so sad. She fell asleep again on the bus, but awoke when they got out to go to the grocery store. They finally got back to the hotel room where she and Anita both took a much-needed nap. In the afternoon, Anita had to meet the group for a two hour paperwork meeting. She had to fill out the applications to the US Consulate for Sinclair's immigration to the US (yeah!) and her visa. There were a lot of details needed. Our local guide for Guangzhou is Amy (Lineker's wife), and the two of them did a great job walking the group through each step of the documents and applications. Meanwhile, Matt, Madison, Brevin and Elijah were bored out of their minds being cooped up in the hotel the whole day. We ended the day with a group dinner at the hotel's Japanese restaurant. 
This was a cool dinner served in small rooms in groups of twelve, where we took off our shoes, sat on the floor (kind of) and ate together. It would have been really wonderful had we not had two sick children with us. One nice thing about today was being reunited with the families that had gone to get their babies from another province. The Landinos have beautiful Ivy Fu Chen, and it was great to hear about their experiences in Guangxi Province.
Matt and Madison are much better now, so let's pray that Elijah and Anita are not next to get sick. The best part of Sincair's day, by far, was the bath in the sink after dinner. We finally got some giggles after an exhausting day.
"Sinclair, how do you spell relief?" "B-A-T-H!"
The medical exam included a weight and height check, a look into Sinclair's eyes, ears and throat and then a quick look at her body. She screamed about the ear check and Anita had to hold her really tightly to let the doctor finish looking. She was so tired and so sad. She fell asleep again on the bus, but awoke when they got out to go to the grocery store. They finally got back to the hotel room where she and Anita both took a much-needed nap. In the afternoon, Anita had to meet the group for a two hour paperwork meeting. She had to fill out the applications to the US Consulate for Sinclair's immigration to the US (yeah!) and her visa. There were a lot of details needed. Our local guide for Guangzhou is Amy (Lineker's wife), and the two of them did a great job walking the group through each step of the documents and applications. Meanwhile, Matt, Madison, Brevin and Elijah were bored out of their minds being cooped up in the hotel the whole day. We ended the day with a group dinner at the hotel's Japanese restaurant. 
This was a cool dinner served in small rooms in groups of twelve, where we took off our shoes, sat on the floor (kind of) and ate together. It would have been really wonderful had we not had two sick children with us. One nice thing about today was being reunited with the families that had gone to get their babies from another province. The Landinos have beautiful Ivy Fu Chen, and it was great to hear about their experiences in Guangxi Province.
Matt and Madison are much better now, so let's pray that Elijah and Anita are not next to get sick. The best part of Sincair's day, by far, was the bath in the sink after dinner. We finally got some giggles after an exhausting day.
"Sinclair, how do you spell relief?" "B-A-T-H!"
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