Madness In The Middle Kingdom

Through a complete lack of experience in planning holidays and obtaining “the best deals” we inadvertently wound up finding one of the more expensive and troublesome ways to get to Bangkok. However every cloud has a silver lining and our trip took us through Shenzhen which is home to Alice’s friend Sophia whom she hasn’t visited with in over 2 years. Sophia is now expecting a child of her own and Alice was very happy to have the face time to catch up.

Carter and Nathan were happy that we got to stay at this hotel

which is an old cruise ship that has been converted into a hotel. We actually had portholes for windows (yup - 3rd class all the way). We got a chance to warm up from Dalian’s -13 degree weather and the boys got a chance to “run around” as Carter says.

The next phase takes on to Bangkok for a few days of acclimatizing to the heat and then onto the beaches. Will keep y’all posted!