The Bostrom Family

March 3, 2016 Today the guys took Jasper to the US Consulate.  It was uneventful and that's what we wanted!  No more surprises!  The rest of the day they relaxed together.  Enjoy these few photos.  Tomorrow they will pick up Jasper's passport and documents from the consulate and then take a taxi to Hong Kong where they will spend the night before flying home!  It can't come fast enough!                       Rebecca...the very anxious mamma who wants her husband and baby home!  

Wednesday March 2nd.     Ready to go home, wait we have a few more days.  Another awesome breakfast.  Ate too much.  We spent the morning at a museum.  The building it was in was very cool.  The exterior upper floors hung out  very far.  Reminded me of a modern big city version of cantilever barns back in TN. There were only two families who went on today's outing.  Luckily we have avoided the sickness plague that most of the group contracted.  After lunch we had our first McDonalds.  It was terrible!  We should have stuck to the local stuff.  Most of the afternoon we chilled in the hotel room.  Jasper watched Despicable Me for the first time.  We met our guide and another family and walked to a western restaurant on a beautiful lake.  I had peppered beef and fried noodles.  Dad had rice and fried pork.  Jasper ate half of dads food.  After dinner Jasper was exhausted as he wouldn't sleep this afternoon.  Tomorrow is the big day.  Off to the US Consulate to do our final paperwo

Tuesday March 1st.     Today we went back to Shamian Island.  We were able to deliver a donation from a wonderful friend to an organization helping orphans in China.  We did a little more shopping, which doesn't come naturally to either of us, but we need something to bring back to the ladies.  After a snacking lunch we got a taxi back to our hotel.  We spent a little time in the room relaxing and then went down to the lobby to say our good byes to the majority of our group that gets to leave for home much earlier than us.  Twelve of the fifteen families have three less days than us in country.  Afterwords we climbed the hills of the park near our hotel until our legs could handle no more.  We were able to meet up with two other families for dinner.  Today our restaurant was offering snake.  They were actually alive and didn't like it when you got close to the cage.  We stuck with the safe items on the menu.  Well, we think we ate normal food but you never know.  After dinner o