On the Way home ...

its a bit cold here.....

Final post - this blog was entitled Waiting for Nelly and now she is here in ST J Road....she is still adorable currently pushing her baby walker round the kitchen and laughing to herself after eating a lunch of pasta, chicken and tomatoes...raisins, bananas and Fruit Compote...!

here are some images from her first few days in London..

I would like to thank everyone for reading this and for all your lovely texts emails and calls of support - it has been the most wonderful experience of our lives and glad we could have shared it with so many friends...looking forward to introducing you to Nelly in the near future.....

louise rob and nelly norton!

I like my bath now!

Reading at breakfast....

Off to work ....

So this is home...where are all the waitresses? haven't you got a lift ....

Nelly asleep in the skycot - a rare ocurrence during the thirteen houf flight! apart from falling out while looking at me!

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Daddy- enjoying Borat..he did laugh a lot !
on the plane .......

Last Day in Hong Kong

Happy SHoppers....

I could get the tsate for this ! 41st floor living...

My last sleep in Hong Kong before the long flight home....

Star Ferry or the MTR....????



Kung Hey Fat Choi...great new year of the pig......





Just near the hotel room .........nice ...




WAKE UUUPPPPP >>>>............



WOW where are we .....?







OK so that is Hong Kong.......!




My first trip on an underground..!




Hold tight please....




A light Dim SUm luch with my friend Mei....




Followed by music from a violin quartet...




and a little afternoon shopping........



Busy packing ...almost done - hardest thing to do is to work out what to feed her and pack when - ! She has such a large appetite that she will eat most things but is always hungry...

woke up early this morning and Nelly loved sitting on the windowsill looking down from the 41st floor onto HK...an amazing view...

Breakfast - in the far corner of the dining room away from the business people..but as usual she made friends with lots of waiters..! then back to the room to get ready for the day - We took the MTR to Kowloon and shopped along the Nathan Road..then met with Jane and Paul and their little girl Mei for lunch see picture

sorry all thepics are a bit disjpinted but I was halfway through posting this in HK and lost the connection so have had to wait until we got home to complete the blog...!

Pictures from Nelly's last day in CHina

Pictures that I did not manage to post last night....quite an emotional time leaving China yesterday we arrived so excited and nervous to meet her - enjoyed all the time we were there and are now taking her away from her country and culture...

Another moving day ...



Nelly with her favourite waitress Tami at breakfast....




Strictly Chinese Dancing




Another hilarious sign....spitting prohibited are we in the right country!





Tai Chi in the park



Rob and Nelly at the infamous White Swan




Nelly with the waitress at the Thai restaurant where we bought her congee most evenings



Nelly getting active at Guangzhou airport




Nelly checks in to the 41st floor of the Renaissance Harbour View





Daddy checks into Room Service!

Day...February 1st - last stage of journey....left Guangzhou, arrived HK

sorry guys no photos this evening....not sure in which suitcase to find the cables!

Rob went off to get the visa this morning at 8 so I spent the morning doing breakfast ...final shopping and real haggling in the last few hours before making a dash to the supermarkets to get Nelly the Rice Milk that we mix with her formula - we will change what she eats when she gets back as the Chinese formula is full of sugar...but hey at the moment it is easier to keep with it just like the dummy!

I then raced back through the scorpion market in time to say goodbye to Julia and Tim and family, it was so special to have spent really precious moments with them these last few days and we hope to see them and their lovely boys on Nelly's birthday party ..

so then we were off to the airport to check in for our 6 30 flight, she crawled all around the gate ...exhausted herself chomped on yet another teething biscuit....,the flight was packed and we were all prepared with food and milk to feed to Nelly on the way up - she was fine after the milk even though we finished that before take off! but then because the flight was only 40 minutes once we were up ... we were on our way down and that was when the trouble started! scream ...scream ...scream ... she did...but then fell fast asleep on my shoulder and did not wake until we got into a cab in Hong Kong!

checked into the hotel at about 9 with our small sleeping baby and we had our room upgraded to one on the top floor with a fabulous harbour view straight across to Kowloon . Nelly slept in the buggy for an hour while we ate our room service supper...

She is still the most adorable baby - God I bet you are getting bored of reading that but it is true!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow - up for breakfast and then the day pottering around Kowloon etc ...the view from opur room is fab and Nelly loves lights so she is in for a treat tomorrow night! then a long flight home....

a demain .....