Hey all.. ok.. first a warning.. we are having issues with posting pictures.. so you'll probably see a picture per post as that is how we are having to do it. Today.. no picks really a travel day.
We were to fly to Zhengzhou today and be downstairs by 8 something.... well Robyn was asleep by 6pm and David and I by 9pm. At 1030pm Jason, our guide, calls the room to tell us that the flight has been cancelled due to the winter storm...which is rare for November we are told. We were to take the train, the bullet train. OK that's cool, that's what I wanted to do in the FIRST place! So we were all to meet in the lobby at 650am.
At 1230am Robyn comes in.. she's awake. I try to get her to go back to sleep, but no such luck. We had a late night picnic of a tangerine and a muffin I had grabbed earlier at the breakfast buffet. Then we talked some and then I set her up to watch "Inside out" and I went back to sleep. Alarm went off at 5am. We were dressed and ready by 6am.. We took our suitcases downstairs and had 20mins to eat breakfast.
It was already snowing outside. The bus dropped us off NEAR the train station.. then all 15 of us and with our suitcases in tow walked along the road to get to the entrance.. ok this was totally insane. So Robyn was AWESOME... as we had traffic speeding right next to us.. because we couldn't get up on the sidewalk for ... who knows what reason.. dodging other buses who dropped their folks off out front.. was amazing that none of us got hurt. It was crazy snowing, and cold! Finally inside, things went very smoothly and we had only 30-45mins to wait for our train. The train left on time, we basically had our own cab. it was a three hour ride with several stops. It was cool to start out in a blizzard, basically and end up in just rain with no snow around. We had noodle soup on the train and it was a pleasant trip. Relaxing actually. then we all had 5 mins to get ourselves and our crap off the train in Zhengzhou! It's totally cool when people work together.. it went off with a hitch! We got to the station and our Zhengzhou gals were waiting to take us to a bus to take us to our hotel. Just before the hotel each family sent someone to get our currency exchanged. David did that while the rest of us went on to check in the hotel. That also was so well organized! Into our room at the Zhengzhou Hilton. Very nice, no where near as LARGE as the room in Beijing, but plenty nice. Once the guys got back with the cash, we had a group meeting. I went this time as Robyn fell asleep.
Our guides, Tisha, Rita and Mary gave us the lowdown on tomorrow.. what we need to bring and what we could expect. Most of us have done this once before, so have a general idea on how it's going to be.. which is.. we really have no idea how the children will respond.. so essentially.. be ready for anything. Then it was time to suit up and head over to Walmart for supplies.
Getting Robyn up was VERY hard.. she was NOT pleased with us in ANY way and we had to carry her most of the way ot the store (a block away) and thru the store. VERY grumpy.. i get it.. but I neededher up so she'd sleep thru the night.. no more midnight snacks! We got our snacks, baby snacks, diapers a cute snoopy stroller and we went back. UCK.. it was now raining, windy and cold. EW. I got Robyn into a bath as David went back out to bring back some dinner. Robyn was so cold she barely got her dessert (a pocky type snack) finished. She started falling asleep with one in her mouth!
I just got back from the front desk, had to break a few 100 yuan bills into smaller ones for some fees and stuff we need to pay tomorrow. Both of them are sound asleep. I'm going to shower now and then I'm going to crash. Today was a VERY long day.
No pictures today. Tomorrow is the Big day.. wow our party of three will now be a party of four! Very excited. We got another update today on our kids. Found out that Charlotte is very friendly and scared of strangers.. oh .. that's going to go over well when we show up! I really have a feeling having Robyn is going to helps TONS.. can't wait to find out! WAHOO!
Good night folks. we will TRY to be online tomorrow to skype in the morning, which would be night for ya'll. If not we'll try tomorrow night. Not sure if Charlotte will be awake or anyone of else either!
Zaijian
~Donna
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