Well, it's been a few days since we posted last -- sorry for the delays. We flew from Chongqing on Saturday morning, and then have been touring around in Guangzhou on Sunday and Monday. Our usual posting time has been in the afternoon when Lily is taking a nap, but we haven't been in the hotel until the early evening and by then everybody's pretty worn out. Lily has decided that it is no fun to go to sleep at night, so since we got here it takes around an hour to get her to bed.... just when you think she's there and you put her in the crib, she pops her head up and gives you the big smile with her baby lion "raaar" roar.
On Monday we took Lily and one of her friends to the Six Banyan temple for her Buddhist blessing. We had done this for Chloe before we left, and it is very special to have one of the monks do it for us. The temple is one of the most important in Southern China, and was founded 1000 years ago by a monk that brought Buddhism from India to China. Here's a couple of photos from that.
The Buddha statues for Past, Present, and Future.
With the monk who performed Lily's blessing.
Today we're stuck in our hotel room until noon waiting for our paperwork to clear the submission at the American consulate. After that, we're going to a shopping mall nearby that is supposed to have a grocery store in it. We've discovered one of the downsides to staying in a new hotel right downtown is that, unlike Chongqing, all you have available nearby is 7 Eleven stores, which is good for Diet Coke and Chips Ahoy cookies but little else. We need to get some rice cereal and a few other supplies for our 26 hour flight home on Thursday; our day then should start around 4am, since we have a 8:20am flight and we're 45-60 minutes from the airport. Then we fly until 6pm EDT.... can't wait.
Here in Guangzhou we can't see the blog page, just post. We had the same problem in Beijing - I think this is a consequence of Google's agreement with the Chinese government to block access to certain web pages. Other services, such as Yahoo etc, are also having this problem and people with us who are using Hotmail for their email access have also been cut off. It also makes it hard to check formatting after it goes up. But anyway, please continue to post comments if you want, and we'll enjoy reading all of them when we get back in a few days. We'll close with a photo of Lily and two of her friends playing on Sunday night.
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