DEPARTING TOMORROW

We are in Hong Kong tonight after more buses, coaches, trains, temperature and ear checks and crying babies than I will ever care to recall. Marc is out dining with half the group in downtown Hong Kong and I, suffering from a touch of tourista and a looooong day of travel with not enough food (which, given the tourista, was not a bad thing), stayed at the hotel with Yan Lin and the other half of the group.

 

For me, China has been alternately inspiring, terrifying, welcoming and astounding. If this country ever pulls itself completely togehter in political / socio economic terms, our collective goose is cooked! This country is so vast in scale and scope. The large cities are on steroids -- the billboards and towers/skyscrapers are huge, the apartment buildings endless and soaring (and most often squalid), and the numbers of people and sprawl of the cities is just unbelievable.

 

And, of course, China has given us one of their daughters and for that, we are eternally grateful.  Yan Lin is the Chinese gerber baby / kewpie doll incarnate and we look forward to introducing you to her (and by then I hope I am feeling better.) I hope the flight is not as miserable as I am anticipating. Off to bed now - thanks for checking our blog during the trip!

 

Sarah, Marc (eating some feast somewhere) and Yan Lin (sleeping)