Huanggang Welcome

Leaving Bejing and Heading to Huanggang City

When we first arrived in Beijing, our hotel had a Christmas tree and decorations. Each day we returned to more decorations. The house below was made of ginger bread while we were gone the first day. The second day they added the minature house. I think if we had stayed long enough we would have seen Santa!

We left our hotel in Bejing to catch a flight to Wuhan, the capital city in the Hubei Province. Our plane was late, but the girls played happily in the airport. We had a nice lunch on the plane. As soon as we landed, we got our luggage and boarded another bus. We were running late. We all worried that we would miss our welcome dinner with the Huanggang City officials and the Social Welfare Institute's Director. The girls played and sang on the bus. As we entered the city limits of Huanggang City--police met us and an official boarded our bus to Welcome us. The whole time in Huanggang --we always had police escorts. We also appeared in newspapers and National TV several times. The girls felt like celebrities.