Well we made it after 30+ hours of travelling. Slept for 14 hrs or so yesterday, and last night I couldn't sleep. DH is doing just fine though.
Its beautiful in Nanjing. Very cosmopolitan, modern, lots of shops and very good prices. We went to Walmart to get diapers and we paid $3 for a pack of 16 diapers! We also found a couple of toys for Kaitlynn which we hope she will like.
Gotcha is tomorrow at 10 am, alone. The other couple that we were supposed to travel with never made it, and our guide is now on her way to meet us this afternoon (she was waiting in Shanghai to meet them while we had travelled directly from Beijing to Nanjing on Friday night). I am disappointed for Kaitlynn that she won't have a playmate while we go through this process, but we will try to find a park nearby - we appear to be in a concrete jungle, and its proving difficult to find grass! Any suggestions Karen?
Unfortunately, we won't be able to post pictures till we get back home, but I will try to keep posting every so often to let everyone know what is going on. If I can't get through, my mom will keep the posts going (good news: all children appear to still have their limbs attached and the dog is still with us, and my mom is doing a great job!)
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Congrats on your arrival!
Don't worry about a playmate for Kaitlynn: I thought like you, but the other family really kept to themselves, and anyways the kids are so young they fight over toys (want to always do what the other kid is doing) rather than really play together. It always seemed they were just the happiest to wallow in the one on one attention with parents for the first time. You will be her most precious playmate, and she will probably see other kids as competition.
We were next to a park in Zhengzhou, and there were parks in Beijing but Taotao was more interested in running around on streets, the hotel room (delighted every time we walked into the same room again), looking at EVERYTHING! A tv remote, a pencil, cars going by, dogs... way more interesting than toys or playground equipment most of the time! Have a great time!
Yeah! Good to hear. Enjoy your time.
Keep smilin!
Glad to hear you arrived safe and sound! Thanks for keeping us posted!!
Glad to hear you arrived safely and that everything is being kept together on the home front.
The other family didn't make it? How omminous.
We are wishing you all the very best for your Gottcha first few days and are waiting with baited breath to hear that you have Kaitlynn in your arms.
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