Photos from Guangzhou

Hello again. Here's some more pics.

Grace in the outfit that her G-Grandma Breitwieser sent her.

Here is Grace with her gift from the White Swan Hotel and Mattel Toys. It's comonly refered to as the adoption Barbie. It's given to all the adopted children that stay in the White Swan.

Here she is with her very own Panda Bear.












Mommy heard there was a Starbucks near the hotel, so we had to get her a fix.

We went to dinner one evening with some very good friends that we made while we were there. Grace has been teething and doesn't take the pacifier very often, so the only thing that will quite her when she's fussy is to chew on the nipple of her bottle. Poor thing fell asleep while chewing on it.

Here are those very good friends: Warren, his wife Cristin, and their new bundle of joy, Mandy. They were sitting in front of us on the flight from Minneapolis to Tokyo. They overheard us talking to another lady across the aisle from us about adopting a little girl and that's how we met. They are using the same adoption agency as we are. On the next flight, from Tokyo to Beijing, they sat behind us. They left Beijing and flew to Guangzhou where they spent the rest of their time in China. We caught up with them again when we got there. They're from St. Louis. Our agency has an annual picnic in St. Louis every summer, so we are hoping that we can get together there sometime.

Here's Grace at her medical exam on Monday.

Here we are getting ready for the group picture and the traditional photo of the babies on the red couch. The red couch photo is as organized as it got. Once one or two babies started crying it was like dominos. There were a few babies with dry eyes when it was all done, including Grace.

Here she is on the flight to Tokyo. Our row had 3 seats. Ours were the window seat and the middle seat. There was a gentleman sitting next to me on the aisle. Grace was true to form. Right after we got on the plane, Mommy got a whif of something. We were in the middle of changing her when a really nice flight attendant asked the gentleman if he would like to occupy a seat in one of the exit rows so that we might have more room. He obliged, which gave us plenty of room as you can see.

This was a real treat. Before landing in Tokyo, the pilot came over the loud speaker telling us that out the left side of the plane we could see Mount Fuji. Lucky for us, that was our side. Really cool!

That's all for now.