Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Plan a few months ago the family trip to the United States

 Called the degree of its bizarre twists and invincible!

1. Mom and Dad on August 2 visas, visa appointments through the ups and downs have been said before, the day of their information to the spring with his son visa, the visa officer that they passed the old couple, wrote a note to the father , said the visa to see my son after the father can decide the next day her husband and be signed in Shanghai with his son went running. Visa officer only asked the spring sentence: You want to go to the United States? Spring nodded his head shy, in her husband's repeated encouragement, before answering a word: Yes!

visa through!

2. Ticket is scheduled to August 30, and fortunately, still more appropriate to flight times, decided to go to San Francisco, the airport, and then back to St. Louis after playing the West Coast.

3. I plan to start on the West Coast 25 trip to Seattle from the north end of the car, has been open to the southern tip of San Diego. I have been longing for in the Highway 101 and California Highway 1 along the Pacific Ocean to open all the way along the nearly 3,000 miles by car in the United States is the best I have experienced.

4. 25 number, mother first, Nanjing, began to prepare the United States trip. I flew to Seattle to start my West Coast trip, by the way pick them in San Francisco. I landed in Seattle, the first phone call home, was told that the old couple had not yet received a passport! Sleepless in Seattle the night really! My contact in Shanghai, America's friends in various ways to contact the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, respectively. Launching a campaign. My friends in Shanghai and even took leave of absence immediately ran to the U.S. consulate asked.

5. 26 numbers, the old U.S. Consulate's e-mail reply, said the visa came out of my parents, will be sent.

6. 28 number, received the father's passport, my mom is still no news.

7. 29 number, mother's passport is still no news, no one to ask the U.S. Consulate would not answer. Afternoon and to them to let father and son come first, my mom tickets to the September 2 改签. My husband can not take them public in the body, with a spring afternoon, Dad went to Shanghai to prepare the next day flight to the United States.

8. 29 pm U.S. Pacific time, I drove to San Francisco, ready to pick up the next morning.

9. San Francisco 30, eight in the morning and a half, I'm waiting for the exit of the international arrival hall, pick up all sorts of imagined scenes. Wait until ten o'clock the results have not see them out. I began to worry, play Airport Information Telephone, they can not provide any entry information. I can play the phones are playing again, and even hit 911, police said this is not an emergency, they do not deal with. 11 However, the time being I'm anxious, received a phone call immigration and ask them a detailed itinerary, and only then they put out. This is really struggled to live half a day, just about to collapse, but the real crash is yet to come.

10. Finally received the father and son, back to the hotel. Dad said: came a hurry, forgot to take antihypertensive drugs, the first to buy blood pressure medicine. I just relax nerves stretched to the limits about. High blood pressure medication every day at home Dad, the aircraft sat ten hours, but did not take drugs, enough to make me frightened of. He does not know is that antihypertensive drugs in the United States is prescription drugs, without a doctor's prescription can not buy. And more is to make an appointment to see a doctor a few days a few weeks the team rafts are normal. Dad thought and domestic, as a pharmacy on the street can easily buy a bottle of two dollars a buck film. Then I'm full in San Francisco too busy to buy medicine for a whole two days, while in touch with me all the people you know in San Francisco to help find drugs, even in the universities of the CSSA (Chinese Students and Scholars Association) forum post, the side contact friends to help China to send medicine. Finally,Discount UGG boots, finally the third day with the help of friends of friends, her family doctor in a prescription, buy the medicine. Less than two dollars a bottle in the country's blood pressure tablets, so I canceled the trip in San Francisco, scary, busy for two days to find the countless friends, spent more than one hundred and fifty knives, get be considered. September 2 drugs are also sent to my home in Los Angeles hotel the.

11. Dad ate the blood pressure medicine, I hurriedly looked at ease with his Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, Fisherman's Wharf and other San Francisco attractions, and then continue south, went to Monterey.

12. Sept. 1, the mother received a passport, ready to take 2 flights to San Francisco, San Francisco, we have 2 hour drive and from Monterey back to San Francisco to meet her.

strange enough the way she, her husband specifically asked the driver, drove with her to Shanghai. Results drive to Changzhou actually bad, aircraft ranging from people, ah, and quickly called my brother in Changzhou, ugg sale,brother drove them to Shanghai Pudong.

13. My mother met in San Francisco Customs and cross-examination, I am stuck in traffic all the way, two-hour drive away three and a half hour has not arrived yet. USCIS received a call to verify the situation on the way,UGG boots cheap, the way to immigration authorities who can speak Chinese, please tell the staff at the door waiting for me my mother received.

9 月 2, Shun Lee received the mother, in the West Coast back and forth a succession of 12 hour drive, arrived in Los Angeles that evening to begin their journey.

Pacific coastal scenery is most beautiful in my first trip here, although this road is almost no time to enjoy the scenery and mood, anxiety every day. Two days in Seattle, but also the car was scratched, but also a ticket for parking, together with fellow students is not lost wallet phone is lost every day the situation, and that I got to crash is not finished.

back to St. Louis, I have received the full amount that is about the car and out of the vehicle delivery status, repair twice,UGG bailey button, because no car, in St. Louis five days, they had two at home bored days. The road is really bumpy

ah, I lost eight pounds two weeks of meat, put me on this land in the United States long the meat, before I return home, and all also back.

hope the east coast beginning next Saturday, the four city tour smooth.

God bless!

2010.9.4

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