More adventure...

I'm not really complaing, just telling you about our day...
The morning was awesome. We all woke up around 5am. We had a great breakfast, a short walk in the garden, and then chilled in the room until it was time to go. Jeff watched Roadhouse on the movie channel.

At the airport we were stars of the boarding gate. Zoe was showing off and making friends. With her social delays/ autism, she really has no concept of personal space or social boundaries. She stares, points, and touches strangers, so we are constantly telling her "no" when she gets started, but (and here is where I make a sweeping racial generalization) Chinese people are nice to children. Language barrier and all, people are mostly very nice to her and try to engage her. I am grateful. The flight to Guiyang was nice and short. No one cared that we didn't make Zoe wear her seatbelt, and that made the flight so much nicer for everyone.

In Guiyang, we have seen 2 other white people so far. They were at our original hotel, the Sheraton. Here is where it gets interesting: someone booked the wrong dates for our stay and the Sheraton is out of rooms. We don't have a guide until tomorrow, but we had his number and called him anyway. Our agency uses their own guides and they don't come to this province very often, so I think they are actually flying him in to meet us tomorrow. While we waited in the very hot lobby with a very fussy Zoe, our guide, and a travel coordinator somewhere else in China worked on new plans for us. I have no idea who he was or what his connection is to our agency, but some incredibly nice man who spoke no English came and took us to our new hotel, the Ramada, which is pronounced locally like the Islamic holiday. We loaded everything back up in a taxi and trekked across town. The Ramada is kind of a dump. Small room, dirty floors, construction noise, and no hot water. No. Hot. Water! But they do have free internet! They also have condoms in a bedside mini-bar type thing, but since we had to take cold showers...

Anyway, the very good news is that the bed is comfy and Zoe crawled in about an hour ago and fell asleep immediately. We are officially on local time!

No pictures today, but maybe tomorrow. I'm going to eat some Ramen we got at the store down the street, watch some Hulu on my nifty internet connection and call it a night!