US paperwork completed, temple trip, birthday dinner

It took all morning today to complete the US paperwork but it is done. Afterwards, we went to a Chinese temple, hundreds of years old. Striking difference from the high rise buildings everywhere. Gretta and her family, and Robin and her family joined us tonight at the Italian restaurant in the hotel to celebrate Gillian's first birthday today and Megan's belated 1st birthday. Dinners out with the other families help to pass the time. Tomorrow I have to leave early to go to the American Consulate to sign an affidavit and have notarized. We had all taken care of the document and notarization before we left but of course US changed the form. We then stay in the hotel all AM while our US paperwork is reviewed. Tomorrow night we will be on a cruise on the Pearl River. We are going to bring the video camera for that. Megan no longer sleeps on the buses. She is constantly in motion--certainly the most active of all the children. She laughs frequently and loves for us to walk her. She can pull herself up using anything including shoes and bedspreads but has not been able to walk on her own yet. We hope this continues for the rest of the week because we do not want to chase her through the airport! It has not been as warm in Guanzhou as we were advised but should get warmer. So far have not used the shorts, etc we bought in Walmart for Megan. We sent out our laundry once last week and once this week.