Sugar and Spice Meets Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

We flew our of Beijing on Monday late morning and arrived in Guangzhou the afternoon. I think we were all just a bundle of nerves I know I was. There were 9 other families traveling to the same province to meet their children. Once arriving there was no time to stop at the hotel it was just straight to the adoption center. Once there we waited about a half hour. The emotion in the room was almost electric. I am not sure if I could find words to descibe how we were feeling. They called out each child's name one by one and you went up and got them. We were given time with an interpretor to answer any questions we had.

At the airport.

Arriving at the adoption center for Guangzhou.

Our first glimpse of Caleb as he arrived.

Beside me is one of Caleb's caregivers and beside Bernie is the director of his orphange. They seemed to have loved him very much and gave us many oppurtunites to ask questions. They gave us photo albums and gifts for Bernie and I.

Mommy and Caleb....at last!

Looking sad and scared........first night.

The following day we returned to the same building to sign paperwork.

After papework we went to a store similar to Walmart called Carrefour. We stocked up on formula and snacks as well as bought a stroller. They had escalators for strollers as you can see form the picture.

They had a few different food choices than our grocery stores!  They also played the music extremely loud almost as loud as we would hear at a bar. My ears were ringing afterwards!

Enjoyed an iced coffee after shopping.

View from our hotel room window.

Nighttime view from our room. Everything was lit up reminded me of Vegas.