Ambrose Family in Haikou

Thanks to a Saturday government presentation that Jason needed to give in Haikou, the Ambrose family finally had a weekend out of Shanghai (yes, the irony is not lost on us). So we piled out to the airport and flew to an island called Hainan at the southern tip of China.

Three hours of wrestling a squealing, bouncing Abigail and we were stepping into the tropics of Haikou. We stayed in a nice enough Sheraton beachfront hotel with lovely pools and great gardens and we spent the weekend there without leaving it (except for Jason of course).




We have discovered that Abi loves to swim and splashing around in the swimming pool, and she's not afraid to go underwater with us. She's also didn't mind napping poolside, particularly since she had some company.

So it all went very well until we needed to get home. Due to a number of incidents, we managed to miss our flight by five minutes. Thankfully we had flexible tickets so we could get onto the next one out...five hours later. It wasn't long enough to go back to the hotel and we didn't know anywhere else we could really go, so we settled into the waiting area to wait.

Over the course of five hours, Abi required two naps and two bottles and all but one of the diapers we had with us.



The one positive side of this is that I have been training Abi since birth for 'urban napping' so she wasn't entirely out of sorts with napping on the fly. As long as she has 'jelly piggy' with her, she's pretty much happy to sleep anywhere. Even on a pair of cafe chairs!




Eventually, many hours later, we arrive in Shanghai with Abi's fan club in tow (otherwise known as the other airline passengers). She managed to charm everyone on the flight, despite the ear-splitting squealing stage she is currently going through. As I got up with her to change her in the toilet, no less than twenty people across the plane started waving her arms to get her attention...and Princess Abi gave her loyal subjects some smiles.