Guangzhou
Posted by Kelly I on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Under: China Heritage Tour
Thursday, August 4th, and we are on the move again. Up early for a 1.5 hour bus ride back to Guilin airport and flight to Guangzhou.
We are staying at the White Swan hotel as we did for 3 of 4 adoption trips. We are told we will be the last group here to see it as it has always been for adoptive families. Within the month they start a year long renovation program and so it will be different if we every return.
The hotel is still beautiful with all it's charm...the waterfall and fish pond to watch during the extravagant breakfast buffet. The boats to watch going up and down the Pearl River and of course all the required shopping around the hotel. We have two days here with a very relaxed schedule. We are catching up on some much needed sleep, swimming in the outside pool with waterfall as the temperature is around 95 and humidity to match, and venturing across the highway to the more local/traditional shopping areas.
Our white swan red couch photo
Mom wants a waterfall like this by the gold fish pond..what do you think ,dad?
We made our way up and down lots of little alleys like this when we shopped across the river in Guangzhou. I could wander areas like these for hours (if I didn't have two little girls nearly sweating to death and begging to go back to the hotel swimming pool)
Last night, Friday, August 5th, we had a farewell dinner with all the families. It was very big with all 6 groups/300 people together for a traditional Cantonese dinner. Most of the trip we were traveling with just our smaller "ping-pong" group made up of about 13 families and 42 people. Then sometimes we would join togeher with the "panda" group and/or the "dragon" group but this was the first time for us all to be together in one room for dinner.
Our Ping-pong group
We are staying at the White Swan hotel as we did for 3 of 4 adoption trips. We are told we will be the last group here to see it as it has always been for adoptive families. Within the month they start a year long renovation program and so it will be different if we every return.
The hotel is still beautiful with all it's charm...the waterfall and fish pond to watch during the extravagant breakfast buffet. The boats to watch going up and down the Pearl River and of course all the required shopping around the hotel. We have two days here with a very relaxed schedule. We are catching up on some much needed sleep, swimming in the outside pool with waterfall as the temperature is around 95 and humidity to match, and venturing across the highway to the more local/traditional shopping areas.
Our white swan red couch photo
Mom wants a waterfall like this by the gold fish pond..what do you think ,dad?
We made our way up and down lots of little alleys like this when we shopped across the river in Guangzhou. I could wander areas like these for hours (if I didn't have two little girls nearly sweating to death and begging to go back to the hotel swimming pool)
Last night, Friday, August 5th, we had a farewell dinner with all the families. It was very big with all 6 groups/300 people together for a traditional Cantonese dinner. Most of the trip we were traveling with just our smaller "ping-pong" group made up of about 13 families and 42 people. Then sometimes we would join togeher with the "panda" group and/or the "dragon" group but this was the first time for us all to be together in one room for dinner.
Our Ping-pong group
In : China Heritage Tour