Today we visited the Tomb of the Nanyue King and had our much awaited US Consulate appointment in the afternoon. The tomb was discovered intact in 1983 by chance and was found to hold the second Nanyue King, Zhao Mo as well as 15 other persons. This is the most well preserved tomb ever found in Southern China. Visitors actually go down into the tomb. It was really cool and well worth the $1 US entry price. The tomb museum is located on the same street as our hotel, just a block away. Unfortunately, they are doing work on the entrance so the sidewalk in front of the museum is closed off so we had to walk around on the street. Pretty stressful with a wild 4 year old in tow but we all survived. I took a few pics on the street. There are buses, bikes, and pedestrians all sharing the same lane- pretty crazy! I've got a picture of the guy balancing the water coolers on his bike- this is very typical on the streets of Guangzhou- such a melding of old and new.
This afternoon we loaded the bus to head across town to the US consulate. It's a key appointment in the adoption process which approves Alex's immigration to the US. Although it's important, the appointment itself is rather uneventful. A consulate employee checks our faces against the passport, they want to make sure Bobby & I are actually in China, and then we take an oath of adoption with a room full of people. That's it! Alex's Birthday is in August so they recognized her by name in front of the group and wished her a Happy Birthday- that was nice. Thirty minutes later we are back on the bus and headed to the hotel. We now wait 24 hours to get Alex's visa to the US and we are done and free to travel back home with our girl- we are ready!
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