Guangzhou Day Five

It's hard to beleve that this is our last full day in Guangzhou. We are meeting at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon to go to the Consulate to pick up the US travel visa and final adoption documents and to take the US Citizenship oath. We're not sure exactly what the oath involves but we are all nervous and excited about that.

While we were waiting to go to the US Consulate, Anli arranged for our group to meet in the White Swan lobby this morning so we can take our "Red Couch" photos with the babies wearing the traditional Chinese outfits that we bought while we were here. This is something that a lot of the families do when they are staying here. The babies all looked beautiful -- I have attached some of the good ones as well as one video that I call the "making of the Red Couch photo shoot." It was hard to get a photo of all three babies looking at the camera at the same time so hopefully between all of our cameras we got at least one in which all babies are looking the same direction. Still, I like the ones where they are looking at each other.

Right now, Jennifer Rose is asleep in her crib and everyone else in our travel group is out doing some final errands as we get ready to head to Tokyo tomorrow morning for the last leg of our journey. We stay in Tokyo for one night before heading home to DC on Thursday. This has been the trip of a lifetime and it has exceeded all of our expectations. Still, we are so excited be heading home soon. I'll try to post again after we come back from the US Consulate.

J.