Friday or is it Saturday...way to early to know :)

Friday, or actually Saturday morning and the weary travelers have found our home! We made it through customs with little to no effort and were met immediately by the White Swan guide whisking us away to the hotel in no time, being here though was another matter. The river lights that dance along the river are still beautiful even at 5:00 am which is sadly when I awoke from a meager a 4 hour nap, yet my other two roommates are sleeping peacefully. The hotel hasn’t appeared to change, but I don’t remember the beds being this uncomfortable (HARD is a mild term), and although I thought the internet was included its not so the blog will be updated all at once when I get around to going to the business center or stealing Doug’s computer for a little while. Nor was a bed for Taylor, and I just didn’t have it in me to fight for it after getting through our 27 hour journey to get here, but today will be another matter! Taylor has been an absolutely amazing little angel despite the two different groups that continued to stare at us during our last 5 hour plane ride, like they’d never seen a 3 3/4 year hold child having fun and giggling and playing on a plane (no, it was probably more that they’d never seen a blended culturally adopted family before). Taylor doesn’t like to have other people watch her so intently but she took it in stride when I told her that it was because she was so beautiful...Doug had that experience himself when he was upgrading his cell phone and the customer service representative couldn’t stop staring at the intense blue of Doug’s eyes.
Now for today, we meeting up with Ann from China Thread after breakfast and getting some guided shopping experience, maybe the silk market, the jade market and of course the pearls, but I’m interested to see where else she’ll have us wander too.
On a couple of personal notes, Taylor took a page of travel recommendations from her former travel partners (Sarah and Adam both adopted with her March 2003) and got to ride on the luggage cart and had a blast! We’re not sure if there is memory triggers coming through or just the excitement of the trip but she immediately wanted to see the gold fish that swim all around the dining room.
Kathy girl, you have GOT to sleep on the plane, there is just no way to make it without sleeping. I did nothing but sleep (all of 4-6 hours total between being kicked or head butted by the still famous "Tumble Weed" (Taylor’s nick name since her Gotcha day) and keep Taylor occupied.
If this works out right my next update will be all about the ***SHOPPING*** and I’m not one to usually look forward to it!