{"id":252,"date":"2008-02-25T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-12-02T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:37:14","slug":"225-monday-physical-shopping-paperwork-and-a-red-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/252","title":{"rendered":"2\/25 Monday – Physical, shopping, paperwork, and a red couch"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a very busy day today in Guangzhou!\u00c2\u00a0 After another scrumptious breakfast, we headed to the Physical Examination building.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Every child adopted from China must have a physical done before their Visa is issued.\u00c2\u00a0 We first stopped for a photo shot, and each child in our group had their photo taken (passport style).\u00c2\u00a0 We arrived for the physical about 10am and THANKFULLY\u00c2\u00a0our group was\u00c2\u00a0first in line.\u00c2\u00a0 I had heard stories of families standing in line for hours, with families and crying children crammed into this tiny building.\u00c2\u00a0 Whew.\u00c2\u00a0 There were 3 stations, (1) ENT hearing check and a peek into ears to check for infection, (2) height and weight, and (3) a quick overall check by the doc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Lainey did great, no ear infection, hearing okay (this wasn’t exactly high-tech she used toys to make noise on each side and watched for her to turn toward it), weight 24.5 and height 32.5, overall check fine.\u00c2\u00a0 The doc did spend a little bit of time looking at her hemangioma on her back.\u00c2\u00a0 We finally had our guide tell him that we knew about it and were fine with it.\u00c2\u00a0 I had failed to list it on the form we filled out at the beginning because we just don’t think anything of it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s literally the size of a freckle.<\/span><\/span>After the physical, which only took an hour total, we walked around a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a lot of interesting bronze sculptures on Shamian Island.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a couple of interesting pics from that.<\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Very life-like sculpture, don’t you think?<\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In line please, Lainey…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Shopping was next can I just say shopping in Guangzhou is fun?!\u00c2\u00a0 There are little shops all along the streets, and bargaining is the name of the game.\u00c2\u00a0 Randy is good at this, so we did well.\u00c2\u00a0 We especially enjoyed going to a shop called Jordan’s.\u00c2\u00a0 The place is run by a Chinese man named well, Jordan.\u00c2\u00a0 We’d been told about him by other families who traveled before us and knew that he’s also a Christian, so we were happy to leave a few Yuan with him.\u00c2\u00a0 Here he is doing Chinese calligraphy on well, that’s a surprise.<\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hello from the 12th floor!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Back to the room, Randy stayed with Lainey-bug while I went to our guide’s room to do paperwork for our upcoming consulate appointment.\u00c2\u00a0 Playtime and a bath later, and we were ready for the Red Couch.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here’s the scoop on that.\u00c2\u00a0 There are several red couches in the White Swan hotel and it has become a tradition for adoptive families to have pictures taken on these.\u00c2\u00a0 Our group (4 families) gathered today for our photos each family, the whole group with moms, dads, and kids, and then the children by themselves. I didn’t get permission to post pics of the others, so here is just our shot on the famous couch plus a few others for good measure.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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We told you the waterfall was big, right?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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We ended our day with dinner at Lucy’s bar and grill, very popular with adoptive families because of it’s traditional, American food.\u00c2\u00a0 We ate with Jennie and Merle, and their newly adopted 16mo old. Jennie and I met online more than 2 years ago, when we were both paperchasing for our adoptions.\u00c2\u00a0 I was so happy that it worked out for us to travel at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s also the person who made Lainey her adorable pink and green flannel blanket that’s been in a pic or two here.\u00c2\u00a0 Their blog is listed on my sidebar, under families we’re traveling with.<\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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As you can tell by this picture, Lainey was done having her red couch picture taken.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re beginning to feel that way about our trip.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re having an amazing time, but we’re about ready to go home.\u00c2\u00a0 4 nights, 3 days until we leave, not that we’re counting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a very busy day today in Guangzhou!\u00c2\u00a0 After another scrumptious breakfast, we headed to the Physical Examination building.   Every child adopted from China must have a physical done before their Visa is issued.\u00c2\u00a0 We first stopped for a photo shot, and each child in our group had their photo taken (passport style).\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}