Today we loaded up the bus with the Lee family and headed out to White Cloud Mountain.  Before I get to the day, I wanted to let you know that the U.S. Consulate has approved us to meet with them a day early, facilitating our leaving here a day early.  That means we can spend more time with the specialist in NYC.  Please pray about the changes to our flights.  While there is availability, the travel agent doesn’t know how much those changes are going to cost us.  It would be nice if they would do them for free based upon the medical need involved.  We should know later today.

Back to the mountain.  

Rather than walk the 1 1/2 hours up the mountain, we chose to ride the cable cars!  Brittany entertains some of the Lee children while we wait.

When it is our turn, Kelly, Abby, Ali, and I load up!

This was the look on Ali’s face as soon as we attached to the cable and started up the mountain!  She is such a kid!

Almost to the top, I took a picture of Abby and Ali with Guangzhou in the background.

At the top we stopped for a little family picture.

And Kelly and Ali took a couple of mother-daughter shots.

The mountain was very beautiful with lots of pretty birds.

We walked around a huge bird aviary.

Towards the end of our time at White Cloud Mountain, we went to a bird show that was actually quite entertaining!

They had one of the birds take a bill out of Ali’s hand!

As any self respecting US bird park would, White Cloud Mountain had an “Angry Birds” theme going.

We talked Grace into taking us to a good noodle restaurant on the way home.  The price was payment of her lunch and the drivers lunch, but it was MORE than worth it.

They make all their own noodles and we were watching a lady “throwing” noodles from a bowl into the pot of water.  When we pulled out the cameras, another guy stepped in and he was whipping the noodles all over the place, almost hitting the ceiling and the floor!  It was pretty impressive that he kept hitting the pot of water without fail!

Tomorrow morning we head out around 8:30 for our consulate appointment.  That is when we will actually receive her US VISA and we are cleared to leave the country.  Everyone will agree the Ali is truly ours.

Cameron