09/17 Consulate Appointment

Today is our appointed time with the American Consulate to turn in our paperwork...but the good news is we don't have to go individually. Connie carries all of our packets to the Consulate and turns them in for us and then she waits there for the approval. In the meantime we all have to wait in our rooms and be available by phone in case there are any questions.
We started our day with breakfast as usual. After breakfast Baba took the girls to the swimming pool while Mama waited in the room. I took the opportunity to catch up on my blogging. Connie called around noon and said everything went well and "your daughter is almost an American citizen".
When the kids got back from the pool we went out shopping. Then we went to the White Swan to see the beautiful waterfall inside and their pools (Mama didn't get to see it when everyone else did...paperwork). For lunch we went back to Lucy's. They do have good food. After lunch we found a Starbuck's...we taught Esther to say "Starbuck's"(esential English in our part of the world). We did a little more shopping and looking around, Shaiman Island is a very beautiful area with a lot of British influence.
At 5:45 we all met at the White Swan for our Pearl River boat cruise. We went on a dinner boat cruise up and down the Pearl River. It was nice... all the buildings on either side of the River are lit up. Dinner was O.K., nothing great, but not bad.
On the way back from our cruise the kids like to take the microphone Connie uses and do Kareoke. They each take turns singing. Yesterday on the way home from the zoo they did it and big sister was the M.C. of course. She would introduce the next kid to sing and say things like, "Give it up for ______ !" Tonight she sang the song she wrote for Esther to the tune of "Take me out to the ball game".