Guangzhou, Day 2

We're nearing the completion of our adoption quest adventure. So far no one has the famous Traveler's D. The two families in need of prayer are doing much better! Thanks. Today was our toughest day in Guangzhou, All the adoption kids had their medical checkup and we had to complete our visa documentation in our guide's room. Our energy level is quickly dropping. The high humidity has a way of draining your vitality I feel like a kid playing softball and hitting his first big fly ball and trying to run the bases as fast as I can. By the time you run past 2nd base your legs slowly give out and you don't want to fall face flat between 2nd and 3rd base. haha. We're getting close to 3rd base.

If you watch action movies you will know that defcon1 through defcon5 means the possibility of military action due to a major incident, leading to the possibility of war. Well today we were doing a humorous version in that where we where at PoopCon3. Rui had eaten a ton of food for breakfast and we were afraid that she would do the big one at the med clinic. Everytime she drank a bottle of milk, the big #2 would surely come. Well we survived the medical exam. She gave us the bomb while we were walking back from the med center. (P-you). We were at a shop on our way back and they wouldn't let us leave. We said we have to go change Rui's diaper, and they kept saying "you buy at 160, good deal, really low price, how about 135? I said we had to go and offered 100 rmb. Guess who won? They did. Fortunately the huggies brand diaper held it all in, and we saved 60 rmb dollars thanks to a poopy diaper!

In the mid afternoon we had to do a lot of paperwork and to find all our reference documents. Our guide called it torture day. He was right. The paperwork was hard to understand but the guides knew what to do. Phew we survived. Tomorrow is wait day where we will find out whether the consulate will accept our group's paperwork, that we did today. Thankfully our group was able to adopt our children before the new Hague convention requirements kicked in. It would've delayed our adoption another 6 months to a year.

Tonight we came back around 845pm and fell asleep around 930. We woke up at 11:30 thinking it was 4 am. My short nap was enough to recharge me to do this blog. Hope it makes sense. I'm still sleepy and typing in the dark with a headlight. Signing out until tomorrow.