Little Ballerina

What a Happy girl!

Mommy's girl

Angelina with Norman from US Asian Affairs

Today we went to the U.S. Consulate to take an oath on behalf of Angelina that all documents and data provided for her Visa were correct. The entire group said the oath together and aloud. It was very dramatic. There were some tears. Angie is one step closer to becoming an American citizen!!

Right before the Consulate appointment we stopped at a mall across from our original hotel in Guangzhou. We had 30 minutes to shop. Sandeep and I skipped the shopping to go over to the China Hotel which houses a STARBUCKS!! What a thrill it was to have a grande (they don't have Venti here) decaf cafe mocha with skim and whipped. Just DELIGHTFUL!! So we missed getting some souveniers, but it was well worth it!!

This evening was our farewell dinner with the entire team (a few families are leaving in the am). Most of the children and some of the adults were dressed in Chinese attire. Everyone looked great and the babies looked adorable. We took a bunch of group pictures.

The food was better this evening and we did have something to eat. I tried the shrimp with the eyes, legs and antennas. I was doing great until I broke the shrimp and brown stuff oozed out. THAT WAS IT!! But a friend gave me a shelled clean piece and it was very good. But I just couldn't get past my ordeal so I told the server to take the dish away. :) We also skipped the meat platter just in case dog was in the dish. They eat dog in Guangzhou, but I don't think they eat it in Dongguan; but you never know.

Angelina was dressed to the Nine's tonight with a Chinese outfit that looked like a tu tu! She received lots of compliments :)

Tomorrow we leave. Hooray!!! It was really rough on the families traveling during the tradeshow. We spent so much time in the bus traveling from Dongguan to Guangzhou. Many of the families were frustrated and even the China Team does not want to come back to Dongguan. It was very inconvenient and time consuming. We could have spent that time resting or sight seeing. So traveling during the tradeshow was VERY inconvenient and pretty much a hardship. We will NEVER do it again!

More later.