This will probably be my final post from China.
We went to the US consulate today to pick up Leila's visa. We took an oath swearing that all the information we had submitted was accurate and true. That was it! Everything about this trip hinged on when we could get our consulate appt. Maggie and Rosa turned all of our paperwork in yesterday. I know they did all of the behind the scene running part of that for us. But all we had to do, was show up, let them see that all of our passports matched our faces, take the oath and leave.
We ate at the Chinese restaurant here in the hotel for our last meal here with some of our friends. Now they had some strange things on the menu - scorpion soup, eel, lots of feet, shark fin, bean curd, snow frog, sea cucumber, abalone....
I tried some of the snow frog w/ crab. I thought it was pretty good. I couldn't eat a lot of it, but a little was okay. I'm just not sure what the little round crunchy things were in it.
We're leaving the hotel tomorrow morning at 7 AM. We fly to Beijing, then to Chicago, then finally to Charleston. We're due to arrive there at 8:07 PM. I figure we'll have about 26-27 hrs total travel time.
Wish us luck and pray for us on that.
It's been really sad saying goodbye to some of our new friends tonight. We're happy to be coming home, but it's a bittersweet joy to be leaving China too.
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