1) Squatty potties aren't that bad. (It's just the toilet paper thrown into waste baskets that'll gross you out.) Don't know what a squat toilet is? Then check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
2) Carry your own toilet paper because despite the waste basket issue, #1 still gets a whole lot worse when you realize that most public restrooms don't have toilet paper at all.
3) For a communist country, China appears, in many ways, to be more capitalistic than the U.S. Expect to see shop after shop after shop.
4) Plan to walk around with wet hands. Paper towels are seemingly non-existent and those places that do have toilet paper like it so well that they use it as their hand-drying paper. As you can imagine, it's not very effective.
5) Food is delicious and cheap if you can find hole-in-the-wall places and have a person who can order for you in Chinese. We had a huge lunch of fried "green garlic," pork and green beans, spicy peanut chicken, sweet and sour pork, cabbage, white rice, and fried noodles for a grand total of $8.50 for the three of us.
6) Every hotel seems to have the same beds which are (no exaggeration) about as hard as rocks. You really do get used to them, though.
7) Beware of falling men.
8) Watch out for stone-faced people who offer food to your children.
Tonight is our last night in Guangzhou! We miss the rest of our family so much and are really excited to be heading towards home.
Tomorrow we have the "swearing-in" at the U.S. Consulate where we'll get Hope's visa. Then we catch a train to Hong Kong and spend the night there before our plane flies out on Friday morning. Because of the fifteen hour time difference, we'll fly for twelve hours but still arrive home three hours earlier than we departed. Thanks for your continued prayers!"
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