Day 3 Return to the Civil Affairs Office

A view from our hotel room (White Swan Hotel) in Guangzhou.


streets of Shamien Island where most of the adoptive parents and family stay. The little shops where they sell the souvenirs, all the babies squeaky shoes and china outfits.




Today, we return to the Civil Affairs Office to be interview by the Registry officials and Notary public.

This was the best moments of having two kids....as we are waiting for our turn Malia felt she needed to refill her bottle of water, the temp here has been in the 70's - 80's.

Finally, it was our turn we all sat in on the interview by the Registry officials, Malia felt she needed another drink of water, left the cap off the bottle next thing we know Ava swings her hefty arm across the table, bottle of water spill over the entire paperwork. This was the moment Alan and I wished we had a huge hole to sink into. Let me bring us back 3 years ago this we had the exact same interviewer he was the most sarcastic guy of all the Registry official being Chinese he expected me to know every meaning of our names how we were names and where the name came from along with China's history:( which of course I do not. So once again he restarts the paperwork. For sure we thought he was going to tell us to leave and come back another day.

1 comment:

Musings from Kim K. said...

Welcome home. You are a family of 4! How exciting. Merry Christmas and continued blessings to your family.

Lots of love,
The Kenward Family