Hong Kong

As I mentioned earlier, The US was having some computer problems issuing all the visas for the babies. This problem affected about 1/2 of the families in our group, but David and I were the only ones that had to reschedule our flight for a day later. This created several issues for us. First, David spent tons of time trying to find us an available flight for that week and also we were trying to decide if we should stay and take it easy in Guanzhou with the other adopting families (the later group) or go it alone and head into Hong Kong and spend a day and night there. We wanted to see Hong Kong anyway so we decided on the latter at the last minute. David and I seem to never chose the easier route. :-) For this reason, we packed in such a hurry that we forgot several things and for that I will always be sorry. However, we really did enjoy Hong Kong. We arrived during "tea time." It was so different from China there. Everyone was so dressed up and everyone spoke with a beautiful British accent alone with their Cantonese. Their names were Agnes, Esther, and Angus and such. It was so interesting to be a part of world that seemed so similar to the last one we were in, but in fact, was soooo different. We were starving when we arrived and ALL of the restaurants were serving tea and tiny sandwiches or cake. So we had tea in tiny ornate cups with several several sandwiches. It was fun. The city was beautiful and it was actually warm/hot (except for the wind) We loved it there.