Day 12 - Hanging Around ...

Today we have no sightseeing, just around and wait for our guide, Susan, to arrive with our Chinese Passports for the kids. We went to breakfast in the morning and observed two unusual things. The other family in our group could not turn on their TV and we had a note on our desk that wished us well in our travels. So as we talked at breakfast, wondering if the motel didn't know we were staying an extra day. When we got back to our rooms, we made some phone calls to the agency to make sure that all our plans were straight (air tickets were on the correct day and both our hotel reservations were on the correct days). It ends up that everything was correct and that we just needed to extend our stay at the Dolton for one more night. So we got that squared away in the morning. We decided that later in the morning, we would take another adventure. We got directions to the Whacko store (a local convenient store) where we could load up on cookies, sodas, and snack for the afternoon. We took the short walk and were successful, another small step for the Americans! In the afternoon, Halli and Katelin napped, while me and the boys had a mini-olympics in the game room. First we played two games of bowling then we played ping-pong for an hour. We had fun with the ping pong but the Chinese take the game a little more seriously than we were playing it. Finally, Susan arrived with the paperwork that we needed for Guangzhou and let us know that we needed to be Packed, Checked out, breakfasted, and ready to go at 7:30am the next morning. Looks like we'll be using the alarm!