Nanning, here we come!

Today our travel group split up and headed off to our individual provinces. Most families left the comfortable confines of Beijing and embarked on an adventure to a new location where they will meet their daughter or son.

We flew into Nanning and met our guide, Mary. She has been terrific so far and helped us settle into the hotel this afternoon. We will be meeting with her tomorrow at 3:00 to go get Lara. She gave us additional information on Lara including that likes to take three baths a day! She also likes animals such as dogs and pigs, sounds like a farm girl to me.

As we flew into Nanning, we flew over a lot of farmland. The fields are very small and irregular shaped. Mary told us that the Guangxi province produces 60% of the sugar in China. We have asked her if she can give us tour of the country side later in the week if we have time.

The terrain in this area is quite intriguing when viewed from the airplane. There are rocks that jut out of the ground creating a "Dr. Seuss" type look in some areas. With any luck we will get photos to share later this week. Here is a sample I found on the web.


We took a walk this evening in "People's Park" and crossed the zigzag bridge, watching people feed the red carp that are in White Dragon lake. This will likely be a popular destination for us over the next few days as it is within walking distance and there is plenty to see there.

Tomorrow is the big day. We have waited for this day for over 26 months since our documents were first logged in. At times it felt like it was taking so long, but now that we are here, it seems like we only started the process a short while ago.

I wonder if we will sleep tonight . . .