Travel Day

I just finished a phone call with Gwenn. She wishes so very much that she could express in her own words all that she and her family are experiencing in China.  With the technical/electronic barriers they are facing she is making her best attempt to get information home and onto the blog for all to read and to be able to experience all that they are doing. I will put forth my very best effort to scribe the things she shared with me to her satisfaction and hopefully your enjoyment with a window into their journey.

Yesterday for her (Sunday) was a travel day. They left Beijing, China and flew to Nanchang, China. She said as they flew into the city it looked like Utah. The mountains, terrain, the greenery, it was Utah. (They even had rain just like we did in Utah.) Everything is landscaped in “immaculate and perfect” beauty. There is a bridge that they crossed over in their travels to the hotel and she said it was like entering NY because of all the skyscrapers and built up infrastructure. I guess you could say “two cities in one”. There are 8 million people living in this one city alone. They can feel it. It is BUSY! It took a long time to get to their hotel after arriving. Apparently the city has invested a lot of time and money in building up the city in the last 8 years and is now making incentives for people to move there.  Gwenn seemed overwhelmed that they would want MORE people there!  J

As they got to their hotel yesterday the exhaustion of so many days of travel and “go, go, going” settled in on Gwenn and she could barely get to the room, order dinner and call it a day! Gratefully there is a little bit of “home comfort” that they can experience. KFC and McDonald’s will actually deliver dinner right to your hotel door! Nice! She said that McDonald’s food tastes just like home. They have more options there for the Chinese palette, but the food itself tastes the same. KFC is “close” to the same on some things, but when they ordered popcorn chicken for the boys, apparently the Chinese like their chicken highly spiced, YIKES!! The poor boys took a bite and a three alarm fire took off in their mouths! The momentary panic of getting them a drink ensured, especially since they can’t drink the water there, but eventually the fires were put out.  

Only about 5 hours of sleep happen at a time each night and this night was no different. When I was speaking to her it was 4 am their time. Spencer had awoken and with all of the excitement of the upcoming events sleep evaded her too.