Well, after 26 hours of travel (22 of them actually flying…although, my mind is a little bit blurry right now and I can’t actually figure of this number is right…it could actually be longer) we arrived in Nanning, Guangxi three hours ago at 12:00 noon (midnight your time). Dude, I think we just totally skipped over Thursday completely! I guess we didn’t need that day! We then drove a 2 hour drive south to Qinzhou. So now we are finally in Qinzhou! Thank goodness! I think Savannah is excited to be here and see the city where she was born. I just sent Mark and Savannah out to get some dinner for us because I can’t muster up the fortitude to do it (our guide left us at 3:00 and we are pretty much on our own to figure out how to get dinner in a city where we don’t speak the language–Cantonese– and we have no idea where to go or even what to point to on the menu since it’s all in Chinese Script). But thank God for Mark and Savannah’s “blaze a trail” spirit…I sent them out to find something for dinner while I stayed in the hotel to write you all….which I am much more happy doing. ;o)
We’re adjusting to the time difference okay, maybe it was the slow progression westward, and I do mean slow. Although, I’m looking at the clock and it’s 5:22 pm and what I really want to do is just collapse into bed for the night. Okay, so maybe we have a little jetlag. Anyway, here’s a few notes for you all…
First off for all you Facebookers, we are out of commission for the duration of our stay so please check the blog for our updates. Secondly, there may be a delay in posts, most likely toward the end of our days. The reason being is that, at least for our hotel in Qinzhou, they don’t have Wi-Fi and instead have a hard wired connection.
Tomorrow we will do some shopping for some Qinzhou Nixing Pottery–which Qinzhou is supposed to be known for. We will also be maybe eating lunch with the caretakers from Savannah’s SWI (maybe–not sure yet), as well as seeing the Bay (on the South China Sea) and other random things, all before driving back to Nanning to stay the night before we fly out the next morning to Guiyang and then Xi’an.
We love you all and hope to write again very soon!
Love you, Melissa and family (soon to be family of four!)
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July 9, 2010 7:25 am
I’m so glad you made it! Have fun in Savannah’s city! I hope that the lunch with Savannah’s caretakers works out! I’m sure it will!
July 9, 2010 9:38 am
Glad to hear you made it! We’ve been praying for you. Did you not travel with a group like last time? You made it sound like you’re on your own (at least for awhile)! Last time didn’t you have a group you hung out with or do you meet them at the orphanage?
July 10, 2010 9:09 am
Trish, we don’t have a big group for the first part of the trip since we opted out of the Beijing tour. Instead we are visiting Savannah’s home town with a private guide and driver.
July 10, 2010 9:33 pm
Hi Dan and Nancy,
We were in Qinzhou today and we didn’t get to meet with the nannies. But we did get to do some other pretty special things. Hopefully Savannah feels like she got to do what she wanted to (don’t know yet because she crashed out in the car on the way back to the hotel before I could talk with her about the day! LOL!). Oh well, there are two flights tomorrow that I’m sure we will have time to decompress on. ;o)
Melissa