Tuesday morning we went to the memorial building of Sun Yat-Sen, the father of modern China
We also went to the Chen Clan Academy, which used to be a private residence, now a museum of different types of art.
Even though this looks like a painting, it is really a canvas of embroidery - amazing!
This is a group of High School boys surrounding Ivy, taking pictures of her with their cell phones.
At the museum
Ivy and Luke playing in front of statues on Shamian Island Monday before lunch
We can't wait to be home!
We just talked to United Airlines and are so excited because we found out the flight home is only 11 hours and 24 minutes!!! The flight coming was close to 14 hours, so 11 sounds like heaven to us.
We flew from Guangzhou to Beijing tonight (3 hours) - good trial run. The kids did alright, parents were a little frazzled.
We leave for the airport at 10am tomorrow morning (it is now about midnight here). Our flight leaves around 1pm Wednesday afternoon, and lands in San Fran at 9am Wednesday morning. We are all really excited to go back in time.
My next post should have a pictures of us all back in our own home - no more Hotels!!! We can't wait for Luke to meet all his new friends and cousins.
4 comments:
I am so excited for you to come home! I'm really happy that you were able to see so many things on your trip as well. I think you got to see the best stuff because Beijing is so overrated. BY the way, is your flight shorter because of less layovers, or because of the time change? Just wondering.
I think the flight is shorter because going there was a huge head wind against us, and we were going the same direction as the earth. Returning they expect a bigger tail wind, and we will be going against the earth's rotation, so that speeds things up. Very interesting.
Can't wait to see you guys. Whenever Ivy gets homesick, she says, "I want to see Alli."
I'm so glad you guys are coming home tomorow! Good luck on the flights!
You're on your way home right now! Yeah! I'm so impressed with how smooth you kept things running with two toddlers - one of whom doesn't speak English! - for so long away from home! I can imagine how nice it will be to be home! But getting Ivy used to having Luke there will still keep you busy! Love you!
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