Day 10 – travel to Guangzhou

By adamw | June 1, 2013 |

Sorry for the delay in posting, yesterday was pretty busy. We got up, ate breakfast and then goofed around the hotel for the rest of the morning. Packing after living in a hotel for a week and knowing that you are just going to live in another hotel for another week is not very fun.…

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Day 9 – The “Park”

By adamw | May 30, 2013 |

First off, last night we slept well. We all went to bed early (Samuel is full tilt and Jess and I are finding ourselves worn out each day). This morning we got up, spent time on FaceTime with the kids (FaceTime works way better than Skype, in case you were wondering), and then headed down…

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Some Videos from our trip so far

By adamw | May 29, 2013 |

Here are several videos from our trip so far. Walking around the market and trying not to get run over. Adam playing Chinese hacky sack in the park with some locals: Samuel’s gotcha day: Walmart in Taiyuan:

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Day 6 – Gotcha Day

By adamw | May 27, 2013 |

Today we woke up having not slept well. Up and down all night we woke up tired and knowing that we should eat breakfast but not at all hungry. We dutifully went down to eat and managed to eat a little bit. I ate a tea boiled egg (which was interesting) and Jess just kinda…

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Day 5 – Taiyuan

By adamw | May 26, 2013 |

Today was our first day in Samuel’s hometown. We got up and headed down for the breakfast buffet. There were lots of bread/pastries, steamed veggies, eggs, fruit, dumplings, congee, and some other stuff we had no idea what it was. Breakfast was good and Adam said the coffee was good. After breakfast we walked up…

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Day 1

By adamw | May 22, 2013 |

We kissed our kiddos bye and left our house around 8:15 am Tuesday morning. Our friend, Jeffery, so graciously offered to pick us up and take us to the airport {it was such a blessing}! We had a few extra minutes before we needed to head into ATL rush hour traffic and we needed some…

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Made it to Beijing

By adamw | May 22, 2013 |

We made it to Beijing and are staying with friends. We are looking forward to touring the city for the next two days and then will travel to our son’s province. Overall the trip was great. We traveled about 26 hours door to door and I’m still not that tired. Korean Air was a gret…

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