Sunday, August 28, 2005

On To Hong Kong

Hello Everyone... 

Watching the news, I figured that many of you wouldn't have a chance or have no power to check online, so, sorry for the delay. It's been a little crazy over here. Thank God we did a little sight seeing before we got Mia. Even though she's a trooper, it's been a little tough. 

Today, we took off to Hong Kong. I was sad to leave Guangzhou, but I was also glad to go. It's getting time to come home!!! We went by train and am I glad we did. We have a lot of luggage. It was only about a two hour trip and a quater of the price of an airline ticket. Even though flying was only half and hour, just dealing with customs would have delayed us 3 hours. 

Hong Kong is beautiful. If you like city type life. I thought Guangzhou was packed. This takes the cake. Everything is crammed here. You have shops on every corner. No one lives in a house. They all live in an apartment. And from the minute you wake up till the minute you go to sleep, the streets are jammed!!! Think of New York on New Years Eve... squared... and then squared again!!! 

As for Ms. Mia... She really is a trooper. She eats solids. Doesn't drink milk. She can sleep in all types of environments. But boy is she aggressive. She won't stop until she gets what she wants. When we first got her, she didn't know how to lay on her belly. Not only does she lay on her belly, she does it herself. She couldn't stand to well, let alone get herself up. She stand in the crib with no problem now (by herself). Mom just taught her how to do rasberries (sp??). Noemi isn't too happy about that. She can throw a kiss and say "bye bye" (kind of... well at least we'd like to believe it). We have seen her grow in just two weeks. I can't imagine what we have to look forward to. Oh, she does the "happy food dance" when she eats (for those who don't know, a few of us do a little dance when we like something we eat!!!). 

It was neat to see how many families have adopted. It's estimated 20,000 a year around the world adopt from China. I think 6,000 from USA alone with Spain doing about 8,000 (who would have thunk??). It was also neat to see that many of the parents there were adopting for the 2nd or 3rd time. What was even neater (remember... Engineering degree), was how people looked at Noemi when she carried Mia. I am talking about the locals. Without Mia, people would stare at her a lot, and now, it's just funny. When I carry her, they don't even look at me (well, they didn't look before anyway so no change here). Well, they look at her because she's gorgeous but that's besides the point. 

T-2 days till we come home. Not looking forward to the flight!!! I hope that all of you are well.