farewell dinner

Well, today was our last full day in China. We started out with some shopping at the local market. Daddy had to buy a new suitcase to bring all the stuff home. Mommy has become quite the bargainner (I heard a sales staff say "oh you that Canadian lady" like her reputation preceeds her!). We bought a few more things to go into the new suitcase of course (its a vicious circle :)

After shopping it was home for some lunch (Subway) and our packing (don't want to leave things for tomorrow). At 4:30 the families met in the lobby of the hotel for our group photo [see above] and then it was off to our farewell dinner of Peking Duck. The meal was wonderful and we had a cake and sang "happy new family" to celebrate our new families and our time in China. A piece of China will always be with us and in our hearts and we are both happy to be returning home and a bit sad for leaving.

We're back home now and this is the last post to the blog for a while. Tomorrow is a long travel day, we have to be checked out of the hotel and on the bus by 10:00 am for our 1:3o pm flight, then its 14 hours to Toronto, probably at least another hour in immigration/customs, then a two hour wait, then another 1 hour flight to Ottawa - yippeee. Can't wait to see you all soon.

Love, Chris, Caroline, Stephanie and Sophie.

P.S. the first photo is Sophie after her bath - love the mohawk hair.