Last post from China

Well, here we are, midday on the last full day. We leave tomorrow morning, on schedule for those of you meeting us at the airport. We'll call if things change once we get under way. After I posted yesterday, I finally figured out how to get to the comments and read them, we appreciate all of them. We'll be creating a much more detailed journal of our trip with many more pictures once we get home, probably posted on our regular website, but we'll post here too to let you know where it is. Here are some pictures for today.


First we have a sample of the view from our room here at the White Swan. This is one of the boats that cruises around in the evening. They are all lit up in neon colors, as is the other side of the river.


And this is what my favorite beverage looks like. Diet Pepsi or Pepsi Lite as they call it here. You can see they still use the old style "pop tops".



And our favorite asian princess in one of her new outfits. Also standing (unsteadily) on her own 2 feet down the play room. It was hard enough trying to capture her standing and not holding onto something, much less get her smiling at the same time...



That's it. We're going the American Consulate this afternoon to swear Maddie in as a US citizen, a 2.5 hour round trip for a 1 minute ceremony. Then we have to get all of our stuff, plus Kim's purchases, packed up for the long trip home. See you all back in America.