Some clarification

Well, here is is at 4:26 am.  I'm still tired, but after CRAZY firework noise from about 11:30 until well after midnight (I'm serious, it was like watching "the grand finale" for any of our 4th of July shows, only they were going off ALL OVER the city skyline at the same time.  And some of them were going off from right across the street ~ I now have an idea for the noise level if a city were being bombarded...), Caleb waking up disoriented and hungry at 2:15 (thank goodness for that jar of JIF and the bagels I threw in the suitcase!) and then Kylie waking up at 3:45 because she had to go potty and was hungry too, I just can't get back to sleep.

Right now it is the strangest thing with Fireworks and Fireflies.  I can access other sites if they are in my RSS feed, and even some through my bookmarks, but can't get to Fireworks and Fireflies myself just yet.  (I have a very good friend who was kind enough to post for me yesterday).  We'll see later if my other backup is going to work.  BUT your comments are coming through email to me, so please keep them up!  It boosted my tired soul at 4:15 when I turned on my computer and saw how many are checking in on us.

But the funny thing is that I realized just how tired I was as I tried to update last night.  Not a lot was coherent (I went back and read what I typed to my friend), so I'll try to clarify a few things. 

First of all, Ian and I had to laugh that we had so much in place for our trip, yet we had totally overlooked getting from the airport to the hotel.  At one point when we realized just how much "stuff" we have with us (stroller, checked bags, carry on bags) Ian came to the conclusion that we probably wouldn't all fit in one taxi.  I think I heard the words "We may have to split up and take two taxis" come out of his mouth at one point.  Don't worry, I shot him "the look" (communicating that there was NO WAY, NO HOW that was going to happen) and we began to come up with another plan.  It was the strangest feeling to come out of the secure area of the airport knowing that there would be no one holding a sign with our name.  And enter in the conspicuous part again.  Boy howdy did we get some second and third looks as two Caucasians pushing two Asian kids in a double stroller amid a sea of other Asian faces...

But we found an information desk and ended up hiring a private mini-van to take us the 60 kms from the airport to our hotel.  We needed it too!  The stroller had to ride in the front seat...

And that is where the title of the post came in.  (I just forgot to tell about it due to insane tiredness).  For the first five minutes of our ride, both Kylie and Caleb pointed to pretty much every building they saw and asked, "Mommy, is that building in China?"  The first few I think they really wondered, and then it became a game.  Both just kept smiling and saying, "We're in China, we're in China!"

I have to add too that the Singapore rice noodles last night tasted just like the ones at SoHo back in Harrisburg.  Minus the chicken.  Which here I think is probably a good thing...

Y'all, it is 4:47 am now and the fireworks are going again.  Crazy I tell you!

Okay, last thing and then I'm going to try to catch a few more zzz's before the sun rises.  Apparently either my level of tiredness when I typed last night was so great that it impaired my ability to do simple math calculations, or (and I'm going with this one) I was already asleep at the keyboard and decided that since I was already asleep that I didn't need to count last night's sleep.  Cause we still have TWO more sleeps until we meet Darcy.  Guess I am just too giddy with excitement about being so close to our baby girl. 

I'll be back later tonight with pictures from our day here in Shanghai.