A quick photo of us all before we leave. I don’t know that we’ll ever make it back to China, at least not for a long, long time and by then the Douglas family will likely have moved on. But maybe one year we’ll catch them in England and hopefully they’ll come to the states again in the next couple years.
Breathtaking morning at the Lookout Point.
We had some breakfast then headed right out to the airport. We stopped for some fried bread (like a doughnut but not round, or like funnel cake but without the sugar and not in cake form), and boaza (not spelled right, sorry!) it’s like a little bread with meat inside - like a steamed bun. Delicious!
Oddly there were these individual Karaoke machines in the Beijing airport.... it made more sense after the night before.
Just another airport selfie.
The hotel lobby of the Shangri-La Nanchang. Our agency recommends the hotels we stay in and this one is gorgeous. It would be absolutely unaffordable for us in the US, but was quite reasonablely priced when compared.
The view from our room! That’s the Gan River behind me, it’s part of the Yangtze River.
Stunning!
The outside of our hotel. It was built only 5-6 years ago.
Instantly made use of Callum’s gift of coffee and this amazing way to have delicious coffee without a coffee maker. There is a hot water maker in our hotel room so this was fantastic!
I told our guide we like noodles and she took us and the other 2 families here adopting to Rice Noodle Kingom. It was small inside but had such delicious noodles!
All six of us ate plus had bottled water for $92 Yuan, which is about $13 US dollars... just over $2 per person. I think we’ll be eating there again!
After dinner we walked across the street to where these fountains are. At night they run and put on an amazing light show. I’m hoping to get the chance to be down here one evening while it’s happening to get better photos and video. This area had a boardwalk feel to it.
This bridge in the skyline connects the Old City Nanchang to the new city. We are on the new side.
A land pier that people were walking across and fishing from. Trent really wants to walk there but decided we wouldn’t lead our group astray with our adventures and will come alone later in the week.
As you can see, Beijing and Nanchang have very different weather. It was bright and sunny in Beijing and it’s (at least today) been drizzling off and on. Most people carry umbrellas or ponchos since it seems to rain like this much of the time here. We may need to pick up an umbrella to shield Heidi from the rain.
The bridge is all lit up in red!
Old Nanchang across the River. What a view!
The rest of our evening was spent lounging around. We did attempt to go to the lounge area in the hotel lobby and ordered a dessert. It was intimidating as we were just pointing at the menu and weren’t sure the protocol for paying (will they bring the bill to us? do we go up to pay?). In the end we just walked up to pay when we were finished and it was fine.
I blogged, Trent tried not to fall asleep too early.
I was sleeping well but popped awake about 2:00 and haven’t been able to fall alseep. I don’t think it’s jet lag since this wasn’t a problem at all the other days, I think it’s excitement (and maybe some nerves) for tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the big day! We leave at 2 pm to meet our children (us and two families from Texas). The other children are coming from different orphanages and those families will meet their children first. We will be last at 4:00.
Please pray for all of us and for the children who may be sad, frightened, scared and nervous. Until tomorrow, friends!
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