Saturday, November 3, 2007

Smiles and sunshine

Saturday in Guangzhou brought some much needed sunshine, a nice
breakfast and real coffee for the first time in almost a week. Darcy
slept for 10 hours and woke hungry as is his custom.

We had a 9 am appointment with Dr. Nasenbenny, the agency doctor.
Darcy was, ahem, unpleased to be examined, and managed to express his
displeasure by peeing all over Laurelle and one of the double beds in
Dr Nasenbenny's room. Hardly an auspicious start, but Mama handled it
like a pro.

We then had a short break and headed off to have Darcy's visa picture
taken (made possible only by a very quick-triggered photographer),
then for the official visa physical where Darcy gave the strongest
objection to the doctor who dared to touch his "junk" and nearly bit
through the tongue depresser the other doctor was trying to use to
look in his mouth. Overall, however it was far less harrowing than we
thought it was going to be.

We then wandered on beautiful Shamian Island in the 70 plus sunshine
and stopped for lunch at Starbucks.

I feel like today was a breakthrough day for Darcy and Laurelle in
particular. There were a lot of smiles and laughter today. He is quite
the mischevious little scamp. We love him all the more for it.

We will try to post some pictures tomorrow.

-- Dave

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