Us with our guide Grace in our hotel lobby. Grace gave Georgia a kind of Chinese cake and Georgia loved it!
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a bunch of pics of JiaJia










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    Today, in the morning, we walked down along the sidewalks near our hotel next to the river. We could see a bunch of stands and people and so we wanted to check it out. It turned out to be a sort of special market, held once a week. It was pretty neat! Most of the food stuff they were selling we couldn't even tell what it was! There were stands selling towels, stands where people were getting dental work (!?!) and tons of herbs. It was pretty cool!
    Later on we went to a museum about Gui...
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(Sorry about the jump in days, my journal notes keep getting scattered. Georgia loves unpacking and repacking my notebook and I guess the 12th got jumbled up!)

Dad has JiaJia in a pack, and he is humming to her. She loves it, and is humming with him. :) This morning at breakfast they were playing "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby, and had a delightful selection of Christmas music. :) We just can't get enough "fired noodle" and baked beans for breakfast.
Georgia loves to dump out all her pencils...
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4:00am
We all got up at 3:00. We're so excited! Today we fly to Guiyang to get Georgia Maeleigh TingJia Cole!
Susan, our guide here in Beijing, said that "Jia" is part of her name, and her friends call her JiaJia.

7:50am
We're on the plane to Guiyang! Air China is very nice. We tried to talk to some elderly Chinese ladies at the airport but we couldn't understand each other! We can only say "thank you" and "no thank you" in Chinese. :)

8:00am
We're taking off!

8:20pm
Georgia is fantastic!!! We got ...
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