Stuff and Stuff!!!

Well we have been back for about two months now, sorry I havent been writing it is just that alot of things have been going on latelly. Well, i would like to say that i am almost caught up with everything in school.
NOTE TO SELF: Get art stuff done!!!!TEE HEE!!!! (STUPID BIRD PAINTING!!!!) TEE HEE!!!!

Eli got shots ~

Eli has to have a doctor's exam before we can fly home. He got 3 shots.

Guangzhou Zoo

OK, when you go to the zoo you see animals like lions and monkeys and there all in cages, right. HA!!! Not here in China!! When we went to the Guangzhou Safari Zoo we were looking at the gift shop when I saw a place called the Secret Forest. So we walked over to it and went inside thinking that it would be a bunch of rare animals in cages. There were rare animals all right but they were not in cages!!! Even the vulture and the owl!!! They didn't even fly off. And the funniest part was that the monkeys were on ropes above our heads!!! and they didn't even jump off and kill us like I thought they were going to!! The best part of it all was when we went to go see the wight tiger cub. It was the cuttiest thing!!!

Other things we saw:

~the kuala twins

~lions and tigers and bears... oh my!! TEE HEE!!!

~pandas (WICH WERE ADORABLE!!!!!!!!)

~and many many more!!!

Well I have to go!!

In Guangzhou- Subway ~ Counsins are here !

WE ARE HERE!!!!!!!!!!! I am so so so so happy because it is so so so beautiful and warm. Also my cousins Jordan and Andrew are here!!! That means my brother will finally have someone to play with besides myself!!!! And guess what else... They have a Subway!!!!!!!! I have been craving American food like forever now!!! Well got to go to bed, Bye!!!

PS the beds here are not as hard as a rock like the last place!!!

Off to Guangzhou

There are 9 million people in Guangzhou. I can not wait to get there. It will be an hour and a half plain ride and Eli's first plane ride. We are looking forward to better weather. Wuhan has a lot of pollution and spit and smoke and well some pretty bad things but it was still really nice and pretty like New York. But still my mom said that Guangzhou was really pretty the last time she was there and I can not wait!!!!! Well I have to go to get on to the airplane and head to Guangzhou I will post when I get there!!!!!!

Wuhan Museum- More pictures

Wuhan Museum

Today we went to the museum. Did you know that the Chinese people started writing on bamboo?

Did you know that there are 7 million people in Wuhan?

We saw a lot of really cool things.

So Much Change in Just Two Days

Since my last post many things have happened. On Monday we went to the Civil Affairs Office and met my new brother. At first he was scared and sad, we literally had to throw him into the taxi and zoom away. But that was even funny because Eli, Mr.Li, and the taxi driver got into a conversation neither my mom nor I could understand. And every ten minutes the taxi driver and Mr. Li would start laughing hysterically, who knows why!!

That day we went to a Buddhist temple and saw monks chanting and a hugenormous Buddha.

Today we went back to the civil affairs office and now Elijah Russell AiSheng Waala is ours.

I am very tired so I will post more tomorrow.

Wuhan

We are finally here, even after the eightteen hours of flying, five hours of weighting at the air port, and taking the taxi ride of DOOM, we are still alive and here. I just got up from a nap. I only slept like a half an hour out of all the plain rides. One of the reasons were people here spit alot on the plains, people spit so loud!!! The best plain ride was the fourteen hour ride, and not because it was long but because they had TVs on the back of the seats in front of you, and all of the movies came in English!! There were two other plain rides we took and they were two hours long each and they felt so short compared to the four teen hour ride. After all the plain rides (we will have more plain rides in a week) we took the craziest taxi ride in the world. The best part of it all, besides almost crashing ten times, we saw fireworks across the Yangtze river in Wuhan. Besides the fireworks we saw the most beautiful buildings in the world. If you hear that China is like New York City, it is, but prettier. OK, at this point we are at the hotel, in the prettiest room, with the hardest beds. My mom just found out we have HBO on the TV here and its in English, but its still has Chinese sub titles, but it will have to do!!

Sorry there are no pictures but I will get them up later today with a post, but rite now at three in the morning 2:35 pm) your time I am going to order room service and then go shopping!!

My new brother....

Hello Everyone !

As you all know I have a sister from Fuzhou, China. My mom and I are going back to get my six year old brother Eli (Elijah) and I am so very excited!!!
In this blog I will will write about our adventure. I know that in class we are going to study China and I hope to write and post pictures when I am there.

Madeline