Travel Day # 2

Today was another travel day for us. We took off from Beijing at 12:30 p.m. and landed in Nanning about 3 1/2 hours later. Our agency guide picked us up - all of the FTIA guides and drivers are tremendous. They took us to McDonald's (for Kyle of course...lol) then to our new hotel. We are now at the Nanning Marriott. This is by far one of the nicest hotels we have ever stayed in. On our way to the hotel, our guide gave us an update on Sammi. We will be meeting up with her at our hotel on Monday at 2:30 p.m. (1:30 a.m. est and 12:30 a.m. cst in the United States). They are going to bring her to our room where we will start the greeting and paperwork process. The guide said she talked with the nanny who said Sammi has been asking when her American family is coming to get her.

We have attached some pix from our travel day. In one photo, Kyle is playing a new game Kris invented for him - PringleBall. This is game Steve Alford played as a kid. The goal is to shoot the ping pong ball into an empty Pringles can. Alford says this is what helped give him "the touch." Kris is hoping it will work for Kyle too!!! Other pix are from the Beijing airport as well as our Beijing hotel and our new hotel in Nanning. Our lunch at the airport today consisted of Pringles (which are smaller than in America) as well as Snickers, Dove Chocolate, Sprite, and Coke. We will be in Nanning the next five nights.

We hope you are enjoying the updates.

Love,

Kris, Missy, and Kyle