For those of you who know my sister, we tease her about having carcalepsy. That is if she is a passenger in a moving vehicle she falls asleep, almost always. Her namesake(she and Betty-June dare the middle name Dareline ) has the same syndrome. Unless we are on the bus with other kids she fall asleep. Hopefully tomorrow will be no different.
3ish hours to the Hong Kong airport then we catch a flight just before noon(midnight) for Chicago, go thru customs and immigration and then on to Pittsburgh. Once we land in Chicago. Bett-June will no longer be a citizen of China but an American citizen. And Hallelujah we will be almost home!
And that is all possible because we had our consulate appointment yesterday morning. My girl was dressed in red, white and blue for this monumental occasion. The appt itself is a tad anticlimactic. About 50 parents crowd around an officer behind a window and take an oath. Then we are called up one by one give them our paperwork folder, then go to the first window again and get fingerprinted again. Then you leave. That's it. No flag waving, no Star-Spangled Banner, no John Phillips Sousa, not even any John Denver. But it gets the job done.
Last night she and I went on the Pearl River Cruise with our group. Ya, that was an experience. The food was authentic. How's that for PC. Some if it was really good. We had ice cream for dessert. It was purple. One if the other moms and I made a game of guessing the flavor. Sweet potato? Corn? Turns out it was taro. Close enough.
Chen Ancestral Hall
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