On our way to Guangzhou!!

Well, we made it! August 27th = bundle of nerves day for the Burnetts. We left our very comfy Harbour Plaza Hotel in HongKong/Kowloon, ck'd out and removed our precious documents from our safety deposit box - no money - just papers for obtaining our most valuable thing to both this Mom and Dad - our daughter. We packed up once again - Dad didn't kill me over the purchases made which added to our minimum of 2 ck'd bags (add one more) for a fee of course. We took the airport shuttle bus to the Kowloon train station and there we were able to ck our luggage and buy a train ticket for the airport for Guangzhou. We are very impressed w/ the transportation here!! LA could learn a thing or two from here!!! We then met up with our group in the airport terminal headed for GZ (Guangzhou from now on). I didn't sigh a bit of relief until I saw our luggage come off of the belt!! Then we met w/ our guide Janet (Chris' sister) and boarded a bus very packed w/ luggage (ours the most of course) and headed for hotel. We chattered all the way there. We settled for a few hours and then went our for dinner at a Thai restaurant. We all chattered which helped so much to relieve our stress that we were all definitely experiencing due to tomorrows (today's now) big event. Tim and I stayed up til almost 1:00 am AGAIN packing and organizing and setting up the crib for Rachel. We didn't have Inet access last night - thus the no report til now. I slept hard but awoke all in a panic. We went to breakfast in the hotel for their buffet and there was a sea of lil Asian adopted babies everywhere. I lost it and started crying. We ate hurriedly and then left for some last minute shopping for keepsakes to give Rachel and tell her about us buying for her the day we got her from her native homeland. Dad is writing in our journal to her and the clock is ticking. And ticking...................................................... We leave in one hour to see our gorgeous daughter for the very first time!!! Words cannot express how excited, stressed, and STRESSED we are. I cry every second!!

Mom

GZ time 1:01 pm