All goes well at the ACS...Maggie and Mary Henley take their oath! Then a dinner cruise!

 Well it is Tuesday evening around 9:48pm and we have had a big day.  All went very well at the ACS today...no paperwork issues and our oaths are complete.  When Maggie and Mary Henley hit the ground in Detroit on our way home...they will be US Citizens, which is very cool!  Above and below...appropriately attired in our Chinese dresses on our way to take a group picture.  They are pretending as though they are on very important phone calls...please take a message!

 Check out Mary Henley's pose...it's like...o.m.goodness...will she every quit talking...I've got no time for this!

 Group photo before we venture out for our Pearl River Dinner Cruise...the folks on the left are from Douglasville, GA (right down the road from us)...the folks in the middle are from right outside Harrisburg, PA, and the folks on the right are from Decatur, AL.  They were are very nice, and we enjoyed getting to know them!

Meritt and the girls messing with the koi fish in the garden on the hotel grounds...very nice...except we kept thinking one of us (Meritt or me) was definitely going to have to get wet rescuing one of the girls...thankfully neither fell in!

Aboard the dinner cruise...it was a very pleasant boat ride up and down the Pearl River...food was okay, although the girls ate a ton!  They loved the salty soup and corn.  Meritt and I stuck to the rice and fried noodles.

 Several pictures on the outside deck...really cool skyline and lit up boats!  Check Maggie out giving us the leg-lift!

 Mary Henley munching on her fourth half-ear of corn...and Maggie giving us her best smile!

 It was a little cold, but the girls seemed to really like being out in the night air.

Well, this is our last night in GZ.  We hit the Zoo tomorrow morning at 9:30am, pack up and hit the road to Hong Kong around 4:30pm.  We are staying at the Marriott Sky Hotel right next to the airport and should get their around 7pm.

Today was a fun day.  The ACS appointment was a little nerve racking as you waited for your name to be called and then waited again to see if your paperwork checked out...but all in all it was not too bad.  

Meritt sent me back to the jewelry mart on a wild-goose (pagoda) hunt for beads and pearls and dresses and Chinese New Year envelopes and movies...I am not wired for shopping.  I did have very specific instructions, which normally works but in this case fell completely apart when 75% of the shops were closed for Chinese New Year...yes, including all of the specific ones I was to visit to collect bracelets and beads.  I did the best I could...so, if you are on the gift list please just smile and hold your giggles for later.  If you are not on the gift list...consider yourself fortunate!

Sorry in advance...and talk to you all very soon!