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I am Currently in China Blogging about my Adoption:

As we were driving to our hotel in Guangzhou I had to check my airline ticket stub to make sure there wasn't a mistake and we were actually dropped off on the set of Blade runner.

This place is straight up sci-fi. To help their traffic situation in this city they built a series of elevated highways right through the heart of the city - 4 stories up. So as you are driving you have banner advertisements in Mandarin flashing in your face. I'm not much of a video game player, but I know I have seen this system of elevated downtown highways in some sort of game along the way.
It is weird.
Cool weird.

Our view out the window of the hotel is on a huge river confluence lined with neon covered hotels. One of the hotels, about an 18-story monstrosity, has somehow made itself into a huge television. the river is filled with neon-trimmed barges blasting chinese classic rock... I'm a little overwhelmed here.

Our poor daughter has no idea what to do with herself.

We went to a cantonese place for dinner tonight where they had your entree swimming, hoppingand crawling in the foyer. Turtles, eels, waterbugs, snakes... you name it, it was live and ready to be consumed. I tried ordering "yellow fish" or dinner, but our waiter insisted I come back to the lobby to pick which yellow fish I wanted. Even if I could have said anything int Cantonese, this is NOT the place you tell a waiter to "surprise me." You will be surprised in very unpleasant ways.

On another note: I f you were asking yourself if it were possible to buy a chinese pirated copy of the new Batman movie on the street for $3 yet, the answer is yes.
And Wall-e and Iron Man and on and on.....
Impressive in their blatant disregard for copyright law.