We've now gotten acclimated to our new city after a walking tour with our guide, Anita. This amazing 33-story hotel has an "underground" with many shops, restaurants, a large indoor playground, an Olympic-sized pool and a 2-story grocery store. We've been grocery shopping for essentials for our 6 days here; bottled water is a necessity, as no one drinks the tap water. Plus juice for Lydia Grace, batteries for the electronic stuff, etc. It's fun to recognize brands, such as Colgate toothpaste, but everything else on the box is in Chinese. We've promised Lydia playground time after the paperwork this afternoon. Just outside the hotel is a large park where there are many vendors, people doing tai chi, ice cream, etc. Our guide has given us two discount cards to use at two local department stores that we can also walk to, as well as KFC, McD's, Starbucks and all the amenities of home. We've learned that we go to the Registration Office for Talia tomorrow, Monday, at 3:30 pm. We can walk there, it looks like a block or two from the hotel. Our guide has purchased a stroller for us, we're not sure yet if it's for Talia or Lydia, who wants to be carried everywhere. We've been accommodating her if she asks us in Chinese--qing bao wo "uppie please." Pictures to come later this afternoon :)
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Donna and Art, thanks for sending the link. It is wonderful following your progress. I'm thinking of you now as you may be about to pick up your darling daughter. What an adventure! The hotel sounds even nicer than the nicest places we stayed in Vietnam - Lydia Grace will have some great memories of all of this! Xoxo Genie and Rex (and Natalie and Frances, who also enjoyed the pictures but didn't have the patience to read all the blog....)
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