As you can see we got here! Yay! It was a very long day of traveling with two crazy kids and some delays but all in all it really was not that bad. We only had one casualty which was in the form of one 50 pound black bag of luggage. Out of all 20 checked bags it was the most valuable bag so of course it did not arrive in Dalian with us! Inside was a years worth of meds for the family both prescription and over the counter as well as all of our books on China and how to communicate here. Right now it is Friday AM here and we arrived on Tuesday night. We just got the call minutes ago that the bag was located so I am SO happy! I have about two days of meds left so it could not have been found at a more perfect time. The bag had lost its tag so it went to the lost and found of Mexicana air and has been sitting there in San Fransisco this whole time.
Other then the scramble to find the lost bag we have been doing a lot of running around. The first night we were put up in the Shangri-La hotel and were supposed to move to a housing community about 45 minutes away until our house is ready. As we were getting ready to be picked up for the move we got notified that the place we were supposed to move into was still occupied so we could not move. Instead we were moved to the residence part of the Shangri-La hotel. We will be here until the 20th or so until our house is completed and ready for us to move in. Ken went yesterday to get all his visa papers filled out and taken care of. Now that he is official our air and sea shipments can leave the US. Yay!
We have also ventured out to do some shopping here and there. We went to Metro for food and some basic necessities we needed and then went to Ikea to get some home stuff. Mikayla is not adjusting well to a twin bed so we checked out the toddler beds and hope to get one for her new room in the new house. Right now she either sleeps with us or on her mattress on the floor in our room. She has also not adjusted to the time difference well at all. The rest of us are all on China time now so she has us quite tired with her 3 am wake up calls! Tonight I think I will benadryl her up after not allowing a nap all day in hopes that she will finally switch over. She thinks its awesome to live at a Tel (hotel) and is thriving off all the attention she gets here. We can not go shopping without the kids being admired and stared at. The first day we did running around I had both kids strapped into the double stroller (which is too wide for most doors here =-( ) so people would just crowd and look at them. People also loved to touch Declan's hair and their hands. I really am going to have to get Declan to stop sucking his fingers because of that! Yesterday at Ikea we let Declan ride in the cart and had Mikayla walk to keep her awake so she would sleep at night (not!). Kind of a big mistake on our part. People here have no problem just picking her up and walking toward their friends with her. Everyone who knows Mikayla knows that that is NOT a problem with her. She just smiles and says Ni Hao. LOL. Me on the other hand almost had a panic attack the first time it happened. After a day I am already used to it though and just follow along and tell her to say goodbye and then she wiggles to get down. It is so funny how different the culture is regarding other peoples kids! In the US if anyone tried to pick up my kid and walk away I would probably slug them!
We are getting ready to go out again today. More shopping of course. =-) Today we are checking out Mykal, Carafore, and New Mart to see what they have and get the lay of the land. Then it is back for a very short nap for the kids and then off to Dinner with some of Ken's work friends. We will be trying Hot Pot for the first time tonight and I am looking forward to it.
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