We made it to Guangzhou last night and I think we're going to love it here. The White Swan Hotel is amazing ( aside from the rock hard beds), and it's much more relaxed and quiet. here. Kerry did not to well on the plane ride at all. She started crying in the airport and that lasted pretty much throughout the entire 2 hour plane ride, much to the dismay of the passengers around us. The poor thing was inconsolable, but we made it through and she seemed to feel better after "letting it all out". She still seems most comfortable in our room with just Doug and myself but we took her down to the play room that the White Swan has set up for all of the many adoptive families that come through and she seemed to enjoy that. What she didn't enjoy today was the Doctors visit but the great news is two Doctors listened to her heart and neither one could hear a murmur, thank God. Kerry had a wonderful day aside from that. She laughed and played a lot. We ate dinner at the famous Lucy's Cafe...so good. I was able to get the first tall glass of iced tea since leaving home. In China, they don't generally serve drinks with ice or in glasses as large as we're used to at home.

Let me tell you what my spicy Jiangxi girl did after dinner. We decided to go back to the play room and on the way we stopped by the enormous fish pond/river which includes a two story indoor waterfall. We were out on the bridge when Kerry suddenly tosses her snack cup of cheerios into the pond/river and says "uh" (uh oh)! After we had supressed our laughter we grabbed the first staff person we could find and explained that "the baby" pointing at Kerry "threw that" pointing at the snack cup which was quickly being buffeted away by the dozens of enormous Koi fish that live in the pond/river/thing. She understood well enough, nodded, and scurried off. When she came back the poor lady had to climb through the plants and onto a rock ledge to retrieve it from the marauding fish with a long pole. I'm pretty sure we laughed more about it later than she did.

This is Kerry's new friend Mary from the hotel in Nanchang. She staying here in the White Swan, too, and will make her new home in California.

Enjoying the"Swan Room"