Sunday, March 1, 2009

Ni Hao!

We made it to China last night and are now in the hotel. It is currently 8:30 pm Sunday, March 1st. The flight went well with Hope finding a friend to play with for the first half of the flight. They sat on the floor and colored, played go fish and looked out the windows often to check for Polar Bears. As we were in the air, the whole flight had daylight. This made it difficult to sleep and knowing the time. The 20 hour flight was long but having movies on our seats helped as well as a portable DVD player. The last half of our flight was pretty smooth with Hope sleeping soundly. This morning our day started with going to the breakfast buffet. It was a wonderful assortment of food.

After breakfast Steve had a massage and I went to a salon to have my hair styled. After a little shopping, we came back to the room for a nice long nap until dinner. Being so tired we didn’t wake up until our guide knocked on the door for our dinner time. We went to a Chinese restaurant downstairs. Had a little trouble ordering but our guide helped us out. They were so nice to make a special order of french fries and chicken nuggets for Hope. She said they tasted really good.

We are getting a lot of looks from people since we are probably the only family from the U.S. in the hotel. The rooms have a view of the lake that is very beautiful but foggy today. It has rained here every day for the past month.

As of now, we have learned that Micah did not go to the orphanage but will come straight to us from his foster family. This saves him from added stress. We are very excited to see En Wei tomorrow. We look forward to our next entry with Micah photos.

God bless. –Steve, Kim and Hope