April 14th

Today we are required to wait in our hotel rooms from 9:30-11:30 AM in our rooms while our guides deliver all our paperwork to the US embassy. In the past, the families had to travel there and wait. Now our guide submits the multitude of required documents and if there are any questions, they will call us in our hotel rooms.

Chloe has a rash or hives. We took her to the medical clinic after 11:30 AM. The doctor there indicated that she is having an alergic reaction to the antibiotics that she took a few days ago to get over the Bronchitis. He prescribed us something that looks like Pepto Bismo and wants us to apply this all over her skin before bed. I am skeptical about this, but we will give it a try.

We spent the afternoon shopping and strolling around the island. Chloe still gets hysterical if I try to put her in the stroller or if I do not hold her closely. I think she is very afraid that I may disappear or leave her.

Tonight is our last night in Guangzhou. We are supposed to go out to dinner as a group to a Chinese restaurant after another attempt to get everyone together for the red couch photo. Several from our group missed it yesterday. Given Chloe's record, I doubt that she will behave any differently tonight.