Hello everyone
Today we received Miah's Chinese passport and Article 23 paperwork, and left Nanjing via Chinese Eastern to Beijing. Miah was good for most of the flight, although as the seats were packed together even worse than Westjet's early years it was tough to control her not so good times, as she did not have a seat. No issues with ears hurting or being enclosed for the 1:45min flight, so that was good. She loves a Chinese cereal we picked up in lieu of Cheerios, which I would name for you, but alas I still can't read Mandarin even though we have been here a whole week!
Once in Beijing, we hooked up with our guide Jennifer, and met our travelling companions Wanda and her new daughter Hanna, and Wanda's sister in law, Julie. Their no so good experience (ended up in the hospital with Hanna, who had a 102 degree temperature the first day) has highlighted to us how easy and blessed we have been with Miah's easy going attitude and relative health. She has had a bit of a cough, nothing serious, due to the temperature changes between outside Nanjing (36 C, with 95% humidity) and the hotel rooms which we keep warm for us, but colder for her. She still goes down for her naps and bed time with little or no fuss, and sleeps the night!!!!!! This allows Mom and Dad as well as me to rest and recharge, something the other family has not been able to do very much of (max was 6 hours straight sleep all week).
We will set out today with the other families, Christine and Jon arrived late last night, and do a little shopping and exploring, depending on how hot it gets. We are in downtown Beijing, approx 15 min walk from Tienanmen Square, so everything seems quite accessible. There is, heaven sent, a shopping mall 15 minutes from here on foot, a great place hopefully just to wander and get out of the hotel.
Monday we will start the paperwork for Miah's Canadian visa, as well as her citizenship application, so pray for no complications and friendly staff at the Embassy!
Drew, Miah, Grandpa, and Grandma
Hi Denis Family,
ReplyDeleteIt seems like yesterday that we were in your same spot in Beijing (well, 6 weeks ago)!
We loved the location of the hotel, we were really missing "Canadain" food and enjoyed a lunch at Pizza Hut and McDonald's!
We can totally relate to the temperature and humidity. It is like walking around in a steam room all day long. We found that we weren't really hungry until we arrived in Beijing, although it is still hot, there is limited humidity.
We are happy to hear that Miah is sleeping through the night, it makes life so much easier when you can start off the day with a good
night's sleep.
We had a great experience at the Embassy, we dropped off the papers and returned 2 days later. All together it took maybe 15 min total over both days. It was longer to travel to the embassy and back to the hotel than processing the paperwrok. Remember to bring all your paperwork though, we had everything in a binder - you don't want to have to travel back to the hotel again!
Enjoy your shopping. On our free days we went to the Pearl Market and the Silk Market. Remember to bargain, Cory loved it there. If you pay half, it is probably too much.
Just think, in one week Miah will be in Canada to meet her older sisters and mom!
Hello Denise Family - so happy things are going so well for you with Miah! I am sure you are so excited to be on this next leg of your journey so you can get home, and Miah can meet the rest of her family! Enjoy Beijing!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy heart jumped when you mentioned the othe family who need to hospitalize there daughter for her fever!!! How does that work, I guess that is why you get Bluecross....right???? One more thing to think about!
ReplyDelete~Roberta (Adrian's wife)
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