What a day....

Photo of the day

Daddy feeding Mary Anne noodles with chop sticks.

I remember while waiting for our turn to travel to China families saying that the trip was a trip of a life time but exhausting. OMG I totally understand now. It is crazy. We are always on the move. Mary Anne eats and sleeps half the time in our arms. Today I was giving her a bottle while walking around the Beijing Zoo. It is absolutely amazing how these kids adapt to being trucked around everywhere. It is mind boggling how well they do.Of course we do have the option to stay in our room but we both enjoy getting out and seeing the sites.

Here is an example of our day today: (Remember we are new parents and Mary Anne has only been with us 5 days!)

Mary Anne woke at 6:30 (slept right through the night again Yahoo!!). Upon waking and trying to make a bottle we realize our power was not working. So following one hour trying to entertain Mary Anne while an Electrician tried to fix it, it was determined we had to move rooms. I had already unpacked pretty much all of our stuff last night to try to be some what organized. (remember we had to switch rooms our first night in Beijing last Sunday as well). I threw everything back into our suitcase while Iain watched Mary Anne. We decided to go down for breakfast as of course the room they had for us was not ready. Mary Anne fell asleep in our arms right after eating. We came back up and changed rooms. We had to be quick as we had to meet the group at 10:00 for the Canadian Citizenship stuff. We spent about 1 hour doing that then back to the room. Iain went out to the grocery store while I put Mary Anne down for a nap. She decided she wanted to play and did not fall asleep until 12:30. Unfortunately we had to leave at 1:00 to go to the Zoo. So we had to wake her. We fed her some cheerio’s and carrots on the way to the zoo. We walked around the Zoo from 1:15 to 3:45 p.m. Mary Anne had a bottle at about 3:00 and fell asleep right after and stayed asleep on the short ride back to the hotel. When we got to the room she woke and decided she wanted to play. This girl power naps! We had about 90 minutes before we had to meet the group for dinner at 6:00 p.m. We were able to keep Mary Anne awake. We walked over to a restaurant with the group. Mary Anne was starving! Poor thing. Man she has a temper when she wants to eat. So while waiting for our food I fed her Cheerio’s and borrowed some baby food from another mom. She then proceeded to eat steamed egg, noodles, tofu and broccoli and then more tofu. :) They had no high chairs so she sat on Iain’s lap while I fed her and tried to eat. Iain was eating over her. By 7:30 p.m. she was passed out on Iain’s lap. Oh on a side note…dinner cost $195 RMB….divided by three families totalled a whopping $9.00 US per family! We ate like kings and that included beer all around! We got back to the hotel at 8:00, changed Mary Anne and put her in her crib. She is passed out! and we are not far behind her.

You certainly learn quickly you have to go with the flow and give up being organized.

Tomorrow we are to meet in the lobby at 8:30 a.m. to go to the Jade Market, Great Wall, then lunch, then the Olympic Stadium. I think tomorrow night we might opt to stay in our room and order room service. Although we have heard there is a good sushi restaurant on the main floor of our hotel.

Mary Anne might find life pretty boring when we get home! We have been so busy it is truly hard to believe she has not even been with us one week yet! She has only had 5 sleeps with us! Unbelievable.

Here are some photos:

Family photo before leaving the Galactic Hotel in Nanchang

On the Plane

On the plane. :)

Last night....she loves the king size bed...she can roll around

Beijing Zoo

Video of tonight's dinner and the chaos. But boy is it fun!!!!

I was just about to change Mary Anne tonight after dinner when I realized she looked exactly how I felt....dead dog tired. I couldn't resist the photo moment.


Good night. :) Thanks for following along on our journey!!!