On May 7 at 8:00 p.m. we boarded
Just checking things out!
our first of three planes to get to Hangzhou, China. On May 9 at 11:00 a.m. we left the airport in Hangzhou. Gryphon and Jocelynn did great on all the flights. God really answered our prayers with that. We were held for “swine flue” questioning at the Hangzhou airport for about an hour. Once we were free to go we had the great experience of lost luggage. It was surprisingly easy to report the loss, and the airport found and returned it to us by the end of the day. Rebecca, our patient representative, was there to meet us with a car to take us to our hotel. Rebecca speaks english well and has been very helpful to us. She checked us in to our hotel, showed us around the area, took us to exchange money and has been great to work with.
We are staying at the JinJiang Inn just down the street from the hospital. We unpacked and got a little settled in just in time to realize that the thermostat is not working. So we went to the front desk explained that it was extremely hot in our room and they moved us a few doors down to a wonderfully cool room. The staff at the inn are nice, but we have a hard time communicating with them. Between the 4 of us we can come up with maybe 20 words in chinese, but they are mostly just greetings or goodbyes.
Today we did alot of sitting around, sleeping, and just trying to get the kids adjusted to the time here. I think we have now, they were in bed at 9:00 tonight. We also went walking in the area looking for places to eat. We found a few, but after eating at 2 of them I think we need to keep looking.
Gryphon and Jocelynn are doing well. Jocelynn wants to be back at home and misses school. So far she has only missed one day of school. Gryphon is all over the hotel room climbing on the beds and chairs. We went out to buy a few toys for him. We got a small truck and 3 balls that cost less than 1 dollar but you wouldn’t know it if you saw the excitement in his face.
We check in at the hospital on Tuesday. Rebecca will be helping us with that. So from Tuesday on Aleesha and Gryphon will be staying at the hospital and Jocelynn and Mike will be in the hotel.
Thank you for the prayers