Today was a nasty day. It has been windy and rainy all day. Which severely limits the ability to do too much of anything outside. Unfortunately 3 kids cooped up in a hotel room isn’t much fun either.
We started out the day rushing to our 9:00am immigration appointment. We arrive right on time, only to wait over 2 hours for our final interview. Fortunately, everything went smoothly. They asked us if we met the birth mother and what we knew about the father. They seemed satisfied with our answers and told us we could pick up the visa tomorrow afternoon. We fly out late tomorrow night (11:55pm). UGH! There is an earlier flight to LA, but unfortunately there isn’t an earlier one from LA to STL (meaning at 10 hour layover in LA). So prefer to spend our time here rather than in LAX airport. If the weather is nice tomorrow we are going to spend the evening out and about. Otherwise, we may be paying for an extra nights hotel so that we can have a place to hang out until our flight.
After our appointment we hit McDonalds for lunch. With the kids here, we have had a lot of western food. We have eaten traditional Chinese food a couple of times. It wasn’t bad, but they don’t even have egg rolls and crab rangoon here. No thank you! I think I will stick with Green China in Lake St. Louis!
Chaunta and the kids spent the rest of the afternoon in the room. I went out on a quest to find a laundry service so we wouldn’t have to worry about laundry when we get home. I found one about 1/3 mile from our hotel. They charged by the kilogram – we had a boat load of laundry and they did it all for about $12USD. If we had done it at the hotel they would have charged $3 per shirt and $4 per shorts/pants. We saved a bunch of money and headache doing it that way.
This evening we decided to check out IKEA. We have only been to it once in Chicago a few months ago. We were surprised to find that it was exactly the same. We bought Hadley a few wooden toys, had dinner there, and headed back to the hotel.
In Taipei, they have 4 Costco’s. As you probably know, I am addicted to Costco. I am curious if they are the same or not. I probably won’t make it there to check it out…but who knows, if it rains all day tomorrow we will need something to do indoor. Unfortunately, most of the sight seeing in Taipei is outdoor.
I probably won’t be able to update our blog tomorrow, so I want to invite everyone to meet us at the airport to welcome Hadley home. We arrive in STL on Wednesday morning at 8:25am on flight 407 from Chicago. See you there!
Does this picture remind anyone else of Jim Carey playing
Vera De Milo on In Living Color.
I think it is the pig tales!
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13 comments:
it does look like that, but you're not supposed to do that. thats what people say behind your back. love ya guys cant wait for you to get home.
love tim pruitt
What time do you arrive? It was great following your journey. I hope everything goes well with the weather, imigration and customs. We have been thinking about you and praying for you.
-Donald Rutherford
great pics - can't wait for you guys to get home! I'll see you at the airport=)! Love, Linda B.
Hilarious! Glad you are almost on your way home. I have not commented but I wanted to say thank you for sharing your journey. You kids are gorgeous!
well i cant wait for you to get home if we new ahead of time you could get out sooner...gma jones could have gave u safe haven..she lives in LA
YEAH!! I am so glad to see such happy pictures of Hadley and to hear you guys will be back soon.
I am laughing at your "Green China" comment, your right there with the real stuff and you want processed crap! Tell Chaunta to try some sushi for me, there are a lot of rolls that have only cooked fish in them or even just a veggie roll.
Miss you guys so much, we will see you Wednesday morning.
It's great to hear you are going home. have a nice trip!
I love the humor(picture), That is something we would say and most people would not get it. It looks like you are having a great trip. Congrats! Victoria JOH(st. Lucys)
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So exciting to know you guys have been on a plane for about 30mins now!!
Welcome home!! The Vera comment just cracked me up. I loved that skit!!
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