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Just before we left for China, I was reading John Taylor's autobiography( which is a lot of fun, BTW, and not just if you're a former or current Durannie) and he talks about getting a daily call sheet on tour that would say:
It is March 21
It is Thursday
You are in (insert city here)
It is a show day
You venue is whatever...

I've got to the point in the trip where I could totally use one of those call sheets.

Tomorrow will be memorable, though. We go to the Social Welfare Institute that was in charge of Ros, and meet her foster mother. I'm expecting it to be an emotional day.

It's been a trip of high points. Ros loved the panda experience. We all loved Guilin and Yangshuo, where the landscape looks like a Chinese brush painting. And it's great being back in Nanchang, where we first got Rosalind. We're staying in the same hotel, the Galactic Peace International Hotel--yes, that's really the name--which is mostly the same, though the neighbourhood around it has changed a bit. The dodgy gas station is still next door, but the quaint corner store across the way has been replaced by a sterile chain store. Crossing the street here is still more terrifying than anywhere else in China, so that remains consistent at least.