More Paperwork, Wonderful Dinner, Walking and Packing for Beijing

Today we had a nice relaxing start to the day and sauntered down to have breakfast at the buffet.  We took our time and had several extra cups of wonderful coffee and chocolate croissants (Ok, that was me! Sue)

We bought a bagette, some ham and cheese and had a Parisienne lunch in the hotel room followed by some nice playtime on the floor with Lilianna and Jazzy.  Jazzy is being such a great big sister and is really trying hard to be a great sister to Lilianna.  She shows her things all the time and spells words for her!  It is great.

Sue went into a meeting room with the other families to fill out the paperwork for the Canadian immigration visa.  We received Lilianna's Chinese passport today and all her notarized paperwork.  Meanwhile Ali stayed with Lilianna in

the hotel room while she napped and Jazzy and Kiora hung out with Nanna Lee in her room.

After the paperwork was all done, the group met down in the hotel lobby and went out to dinner to celebrate the end of the paperwork and our last night in Guangzhou!  Parents tried to eat while babies fussed and cried and Kiora and

Jazzy had a great time playing and eating all night.  We thanked our Guangzhou guide Grace for all her wonderful help, she really was awesome to all of us and looked after this part of our trip with great skill and went above and beyond the call of duty on many many occasions.

We walked across the road from the hotel and picked up Lilianna's photos from the photo shop for her Canadian Immigration paperwork for Friday.  We took advantage and wandered around a bit and did some shopping for clothes and shoes for all of us.  It is still quite hot and humid here so wandering around outside with Lilianna and Jasmine is not a lot of fun so we headed back into the coolness of the hotel after a while.

When we got back to the room there was more play time before bed and Jazzy was so tired that she asked us to put her to bed!  So Ali and her wandered off into the bedroom while I tried to tire out Lilianna who had had an extra long nap

this afternoon.  We were playing our usual games when she just suddenly rolled over onto her tummy, tucked her legs under her tummy and pushed herself up onto her feet!  I held her hands and she just started walking around the room.  I

called Ali and Jazzy back in and we laughed and took pictures for about an hour.  Oh, Lilianna had such a huge smile on her face at times and at others she was knitting her brows in furious concentration.  She did not want to stop and after a while I had to get back to packing but she kept popping back onto her feet and trying to walk on her own. Wow, she was so proud of herself, you could just see it in her face!

Ali and I packed up all the stuff we have with us and are ready to head to Beijing tomorrow morning.  We have a pretty decent start time and must gather in the lobby by 8:30 to head to the airport.  Will type from Beijing tomorrow!