** Adoption countdown: 6 days until Pam, Terry and Matthew return home **
GUANGZHOU, China (Friday, Dec. 12, 2008, 6:35 p.m.) – An hour long stroll through the area surrounding the White Swan Hotel here in Guangzhou quickly brought back many memories of our 2006 trip to adopt our daughter, Camryn.
The streets near the hotel are filled with gift shops catering to Americans staying at the White Swan to complete their adoption paperwork and obtain their child’s U.S. visa.
Authentic Chinese restaurants also line the streets, including one we ate at in April 2006 and plan to eat at again tonight. One restaurant serves American food and specially caters to homesick U.S. residents.
But the scenes that caught our eye Friday afternoon were the brides who were out in force to take their formal wedding pictures.
A beautifully landscaped, tree-lined avenue sits about a block from our hotel – and it made the perfect backdrop for what likely will be beautiful professional wedding photos.
I snapped away, taking picture after picture on our stroll. And I’ve included photos of the soon-to-be-wed couples in my new photo gallery you can find in the left-hand column of this blog.
Copyright 2008 by Terry R. Cassreino. All rights reserved.
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