well, we're in guangzhou

okay, so we be in guangzhou now...we're in the final leg of the whole process. This is where we do the final paperwork and whatnots. She's getting happier by the day, but that smile is somewhat hard to capture on film for some reason. but there's a couple below...enjoy...

here we are, face to face, a couple of silver...nevermind...this is when we were waiting for our flight yesterday from nanning to guangzhou. we had like two hours to kill in the lobby of the hotel...yay...but we got that smile. man this photo makes me look like a bear...sigh...time for the full body wax again...

another smile in the carrier....there you can see the beginning of a zit, or "boil" on her nostril...don't worry, we're putting stuff on it....and it seems to be getting better...

here we is in our new apartment thing at the hotel...this place is freakin' huge. we're talking as big as my ego big...so you know that's huge...it has a bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom, dining room, and den like area...shesh...in this photo Esther is helping me air out my pits...it was that time of the day agian...you know how that goes.

insert jaws theme music here....

Here's Huddle and Esther in the massive living room...enjoying each other and stuff...

oooh...tonight we went to this japanese restaurant attached to the hotel...here you can see me enjoying some really good steak...you can tell by the look on me face just how good it was...granted it was like four hundred chinese dollars, but it was worth it...okay, fine, that's equivilent to like 48 bucks american...but still pricy...but good.

and here we were earlier today at the doctor's office. She had to get all checked out and stuff...that's where we found out her zit is a boil...or something...anyway...huddle needs me to take over trying to get her to sleep...so caio for now...talk to you later....

here's a couple of movies to watch instead of working...

darkness....

moving...

some movies...

and some photos...youtube's being a stoopit head...it won't let me enter my full login for the "new and improved" blogspot...so i can't easily embed my videos...but here are the links...no video of her smiling yet...but soon. She is now legally our daughter, and she had her first poopy today...four times actually...first three were pretty painfull for her, she hasn't gone since we got her...so it was a little hard for her, but it's amazing the change in her attitude after a good day of bowl movements. anyway...it's soo hard for me to post at night, i'm soo tired...but here's the links to tide you over...enjoy. you'd better enjoy. that's better.

vid one

vid two

words just don't do it...

well, we are getting Esther tomorrow...

gulp.

here's a photo of one of the many toys at the friendship store. I love how it's called the Super Guts Machine.

and since there's no scanner here, i had to take a photo of the drawring i did. Just to let some people know what happend when we left:

we get to the airport, pleanty of time...then we find out our flight has been delayed two hours. exactly the time of our layover in san Francisco...due to fog there. So, we get to SF, twenty minutes after our flight left, Air china is closed for the day, we don't know where our luggage is, and don't know what to do...so...we go to united, after 'bout an hour we find out that we've been rebooked to beijing via LA. So we go to LA, then leave for Beijing at midnight...get to beijing 12 hours later, and our luggange is missing. so, by now, i've been in the same clothes for 'bout 36-42 hours...my deoderant is in the missing luggage. yay. So fill out the necessary forms, and meet our guy who takes us to our hotel, just in time to leave for the day's tour...to tiananmen square and the forbidden city...and it's really freaking cold here. like 28 degrees..then add a really nice wind...and it makes it feel like 12...and we didn't have our gloves and extra clothes and such...wee. anyway...it all worked out, we got our luggage that night, and today were pleanty warm when we went to the grat wall...oh, and the food here is kick arse. Love the noodles...i suggest you try them.

oh, 'bout the drawring...before we got our luggage, we were feeling a little sour...so we went to the local store to purchase some warmer clothes and deoderant for smelly pits, but no one spoke english...not even a little. So I had to pantomime deoderant to a very confused young lady. Later we had to pantomime a headache for some advil. It was kinda fun. a couple of us from the group were going to make up a game, where you had to get items only via pantomime, no words. we'd pick like three things and whoever finished first won. Stuff like laxitives and the like. but we didn't...we decided to pack for tomorrow...which is the day i get my daughter...so i'm kinda freaking out a bit...so i'm typing a lot...deal with it.

see you tomorrow...g'night. I'll write more later...you could check out huddle's blog if you want some more details...i'm tired, and we have to get up at five tomorrow morning to leave for the plane...to fly to nanning. g'night sweet prince.

well, we leave on Thursday.

so, i won't be posting much drawins...but you will be inundated with images of our daughter...tho', prolly most of those will go on my wife's...but don't worry...you'll get yours. Until then, i leave you with this possible painting idea. They're soooo in love. and yeah, i know their poses are the same...but that's what happens when you fall in love...i'll be tweeking it accordingly...don't worry. anyway...ttys, or swak, or rofl or whatever the kids say these days to say "bye".

Travel dates

okay, sorry it's been a little while since my last post, but it's been pretty hectic here at work. Oh, and the wife and I finally got our travel authorization...We leave for China on the 14th of December, get our daughter on the 18th, then come home on the 28th....So...That's like two weeks away and stuff....So, I'm freaking out again.

oh, the drawings are just some crap that I drew whilst the computer was a'renderin', and the last little animated GIF was made by Joel to commemorate my run cycle I animated for his commercial. If you haven't seen it..You should. It's awesome. He let me animate a bunch on this one. Here's the link: Joel's commercial. I tried to use the other link he gave me, but it's not working right now...So there's that...So for this one you have to wait for a bit...Then a bunch of beasties will appear above the persons heed...Wait for the words to go away and choose one...joel's is the second from the right on top. werd up.