Since we had until 12 noon to check out of the hotel we did some walking along the rural streets Off the island that Doug is learning so well, they lead down narrow streets with local vendors selling mostly food products, although there are some pet stores but mostly its not an area that sees local tourists. These are some of those photos, stepping back 100's or 1000's of years is only a left turn.
Our flight was great from Guangzhou to Changsha, but answer me this, why would a relatively new airport have you board a bus from two levels down within the airport - drive for what was at least 15 minutes 3/4 of the way around the air port to have you walk back up two flights of stairs in order to board your plane? Made no sense to me and I discovered that, even though I was sparse in packing, I still have too much stuff! Anyway, the traveling is smooth but doesn’t always make sense.
We flew into Changsha about 4:45 and upon our approach it was cloudy, almost thick with smog, but as we got closer we became aware that the farm land surrounding the airport was burning. Apparently its that time of year that they burn the crop fields (later to find out its grains) so the smell and the smoke surrounding not only the airport but the City of Changsha and its 10 million people where enveloped in this, not stinky, but unpleasant smoke. We’ve started treating Taylor for some congestion which will hopefully stay in her nose, but between one of the women in our group that we’re meeting up with today and being able to call both Auntie Sonya and Taylor’s Doctor we’ll get her fixed up in no time...well almost...
Taylor’s system is responding to the 12 hour time change by sleeping 2-4 hours during her 2 naps and then 4-6 hours at night. This is not too fun since I can’t take the same nap times :) So were up at 2:00am on Monday and to keep Taylor busy and quiet so Andy can sleep, Taylor is taking a bath...her hair piled up on the top of her head singing her Disney Princess Show Tunes, playing her Leapster and for all intensive purposes being a perfectly happy healthy 3 ½ year old. She’s asking constantly if its wake up time and if we’re really getting Teresa today (then she proceeds to bounce all over the place like Christmas morning!) “Wakie wakie” is her favorite term when we’re trying to sleep!
BUT the best news from our Local Guide Winnie (yes as in Winnie the Pooh) is that we will meet the girls and 11:00 this morning after doing paperwork at 9:00 so it doesn’t appear that the regional Civil Affairs Office is too far away. Winnie is also going to work with Vanessa and the director of the orphanage to get Andy to visit there and hopefully have the opportunity to meet the foster family maybe Tuesday.
We’re gathering in, what is now 3 hours to do paperwork and off to the civil affairs office.
We’ll keep you all posted...
sorry, unable to upload any images at this time, I'll try later (got a great one of dried snakes and star fish for sale at the local market, along with cooked octopus - yummy
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