Wednesday, March 21, 2007

No Water...so decided to update blog.

I just got back from tennis and the gym, all stinky and sweaty, to find out that we have no water so I cannot take a shower! I am due to leave here in an hour to meet friends for lunch so I'm praying that it will be turned on before then or else my friends are in for a big surprise! I sent Lian to find out when the water will be turned back on and managements answer was "Deng Ei Xa" (pronounced deng E shah, no idea if I spelled it right in Chinese though) which means wait a moment. Now being here for almost two years, I have found that a moment can mean 5 minutes or 5 hours! There is no way to get an honest answer when they tell you to wait a moment. So I'm hoping that in this case, it is a shorter moment than most.

Todd bought a road bike a few weeks back. He has started riding with a few of his friends. Saturday he went out and was on one of the busiest streets in Zhuhai when he started to fall over. Since he's fairly new with the road bike, he was unable to get his foot out of the pedal clips so he landed really hard on his hand. It was swollen and really hurt him so on Monday we went to Macau to get x-rays done. Fortunately, it seems to be a sprain, they don't see anything broken (although we know from my trampolene incident that fractures aren't always easy to see!). When we went to pay the bill it was 22 US Dollars!!! The xray cost a total of 9 US Dollars! I was shocked. How come it is so expensive in the US when we can get an xray done here for $9??? Anyway, something to wonder about!

Still no new news about the adoption. We went ahead and booked our May Holiday to Pattaya Beach in Thailand since we don't want to be here when the Holiday comes with no baby and no place to go. We figured if we do end up getting a match before then the only thing that we lose is the airfare (which is dirt cheap since most of it is from miles). We booked into the Hard Rock Hotel which looks really really cool. We got the composer suite since all other rooms we would have to have 2 since we have more than one child. That is a really annoying thing about traveling over here. We always have to have 2 room suites (ie expensive rooms) because supposedly you can't fit a family of four in regular rooms, only a family of 3. Nevermind that Noah and Jillian are perfectly fine sleeping in the same bed, even if it is a twin, but the hotels want their money so they force us into suites. Oh well, at least they are really nice.

Ok, I'm going to try and take a shower now. May need to run down to the hotel at the end of the street and take one at the gym there just so I don't offend all my friends.

Oh, and it looks like we may be returning to the States on June 26th. That is our tentative date anyway. It depends on flights and the baby. They seem to think we should have her by then, but you never know, do you?

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