Day 8 Beijing

Citizenship paperwork with Yulin

Arrived in Beijing late last night. Nanchang airport was easy, no problem  getting her through security but she was wild on the plane, she never stopped singing out to people and dancing and bouncing around in my arms, being silly the whole way. I think she was overstimulated. She slept for an hour on the bus to the hotel then she was up for the night. Not good flying late when it's bedtime. Also new crib, just a plywood board covered in fabric for a mattress so it was different to her. Had to build it up with blankets. We ended up swinging her in the blanket to get her to sleep. Had to meet Yulin at 10 to do our paperwork for the Canadian Embassy to get citizenship before we enter Canada so very little rest last night. The other families were delayed last night until 3 am and have no luggage. I thought we had a rough night. So we have been sharing diapers and clothes today. All the babies are tired today. We both have chest congestion and are not feeling well.  Had to start the antibiotics we brought. Some families went to the Beijing Zoo but it is cold and Yulin said to wear everything you brought, so we decided to skip the zoo. we go to The Great Wall tomorrow and we don't want to miss that. Instead we went to the grocery store and to buy a stroller, the hotel lent us one in Nanchang but not here so we haggled a better price and bought it. Jasmines referral information says she was in a swing bed so in Nanchang we tried rocking her in our arms but she wants to lie flat and spread her arms out to the sides so we found the stroller settled her better. Wish we had it last night.  After the store today we went to McDonalds for fries. Good to eat something that tastes like home!