First day in Guangzhou

Children practicing their english on us!
Ellie at "Lucy's" eating french fries!!
BIG ficus trees!
Steven with Zak
Riley as a monkey


We arrived here in Guangzhou yesterday afternoon, Ellie did well on the flight, and fell asleep as we landed!! Of course! On the way home we will take care of that with some Dramamine!! Oh yes.....and we will take off from Beijing at 4PM so hopefully she will be tired anyway. I am not looking forward to that flight!! Today we met two other families for breakfast, which is a great buffet with all kinds of food. I think most families live off of the breakfast, as it has some American food also. Then we all went to church!! There is a Christian church right down the street!! They have a Chinese/English service at 11 Am!! Very interesting to say the least!! We did sing some English songs, and they had a translator....who some had trouble understanding. After church we went to Starbucks and met the Skiles family. They are adopting Zak....and sweet little boy who is 2 years old. They are very nice folks, from Indiana. We then went to Jordan's children's shop which is run by a very nice Christian man named Jordan. By the way Vickie....we gave him the gift and he was very excited to get it! He said thank you very much and greetings to you and your family!! He made a drawing of Ellie's name with the Chinese characters and meanings. We did purchase some things from his shop...some souvenirs etc. Later today we took some laundry to be done and then did some shopping. Wow it's different here!! You have to bargain with the people who are selling things!! They say....very good price for you..... Yeah right!! We played at the park, where Riley was amazing all the locals with his monkey genes on the highbar!! They were all just standing there staring at him!! Then we ate at Lucy's...which is American food....well as close as it gets in China!!! We are headed to the pool now and Riley & Ellie can't wait!! gotta go....Pictures to follow after swimming!! Love you Rorey Clark!!!