Thursday

Ty saw me wearing around the complimentary slippers. So this morning he found himself a pair.

Zane saw this in Beijing and thought it was really funny. It was on the side of a breaker box.

Today has been a very long uneventful day. Yesterday Zane began feeling very ill. So he and I have been in the room ever since. I left for a short time this morning to go down for breakfast. Frankly, I didn’t mind because I was feeling a little queasy myself. I know some of you are thinking well it’s all that weird stuff you’ve been eating. But since we have been here we have eaten very “Western” types of meals.

This morning our guide came by and delivered our notary books and tomorrow we should get Ty’s passport. Then we will be free to leave for Guangzhou. But just in case it’s not ready until later we booked our flight on Saturday. We are very eager to get there because there are many more Americans there. In fact, we have only met one other set of Americans. The people were from Universities in the US and were on a cultural exchange delegation with people from China. They are all in the Criminal Justice department. Each morning we would say HI to them just to here someone speak English back to us. We found out that one of the professors had adopted a little girl from China four years ago as well. She was from University of Arkanasas, Little Rock. She was eager to see our little man the next morning.

So after breakfast David went out looking for some stomach medicine for Zane. We had to call our guide to go with us because charades won’t work this time. Although, we got a good laugh at what might make the store clerk understand. Once the medicine was acquired David, Ty and Jane(our guide) set out on a mission to find a Nintendo DS charger cord. Zane could not find his before we left. They searched and searched without any luck. But David did find COMPUTER CITY……it was a huge 2 story market of nothing but gadgets and electronics. I’m sure he was like a kid in a candy store. He came home with a bag of cables and cords for about three dollars. With all the computer stuff we have here we could probably launch a space shuttle from the hotel.

Ty is really opening up more. He hasn’t had many long “sad” sessions lately. He whimpers a bit when it’s bed time but usually settles in quickly. He is a very sound sleeper so once we get him to sleep we can turn the TV on or talk and he doesn’t wake up. This morning in the elevator David reached over and ”Zerberted” his cheek. He thought that was hilarious and then he took his little hands and turned David’s head around and Zerberted him back. That was even funnier to him.

He and I played for a long time yesterday with a beach ball, tossing it and kicking it back and forth. He let me hold him this morning for a few minutes while I was helping him retrieve a big cheetoh snack from his little snack bag. He stayed on long enough to let me open it and then sat there in my lap while he ate it. It won’t take him long to figure out who the real “softie” is around here.

Sorry I don’t have any more pictures but unless you want pictures of these four walls in the hotel room it won’t happen today. Hopefully tomorrow everyone will be feeling better. Thanks for all the comments that have been left. We really enjoy hearing from home, it’s getting a little lonely. We receive all the comments and can even check our email.