Hello from Changchun!
We made it! Mar and I were met by our facilitator/translator at the Beijing hotel this morning. The 3 of us then caught a flight to Changchun, the capital city of the Jilin province.
It’s very different here from Beijing. First off, its cold, probably 32 but feels like 10! It was about a 30 minute rural drive from the airport here. The town looks just like Chicago does in the winter, cars and streets are kinda dirty, and there is a grey overcast. Our facilitator has never been here before and was probing the driver for local information. This province borders North Korea and has a Korean influence, with that being said, the driver offered to take us for special dinner popular in this province, dog!! We politely declined. Once checked in, we went to check out the hotel restaurant, guess what’s on the menu, dog, along with many other creatures. Another thing that we noticed quickly, there are no other foreigners here. We walked around trying to find a bank to convert some money and people were really staring.
The hotel is, well, it will do for 4 nights; I’ll leave it at that. We were spoiled in Beijing. We did end up eating in the hotel restaurant this evening. With the help of our facilitator we avoided danger and ended up with a really nice dinner and were treated like royalty.
Tomorrow is GOTCHA DAY! We are scheduled to leave at 8:15am to receive Lyric. Mar has bugged me twenty times while writing this blog about what outfit we should bring to put Lyric in tomorrow (uhh, the warm one) Oh yes honey, that one will be great! Needless to say, we are anxious and can’t wait to meet her!
Laine, daddy misses you…the giggles, and even the whining.
To the crazy Grandmas….I will post something when we return from the civil affairs office which should be around noon here, 11pm your time.
Hugs to all,
Doug
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04-05-2010 8:02 AM
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Doug