Friday, September 22, 2006

WISHING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO “MOM-MOM” ALL THE WAY FROM CHINA!!!

     Today was an eventful one! We left at 9:30 a.m. for a 2-hour bus ride to the Huangghou Waterfall in southwest Guizhou. All the babies did great! I guess we are preparing them for the 14.5 hour plane ride home in six days. The waterfall is absolutely breathtaking! It was well worth the trip. We were the only American people with Chinese babies and all the Chinese people were loving on the babies. They couldn’t understand why we had Chinese babies.
     Jennifer and I have finished up our packing as we are taking our flight to Guangzhou in the morning at 10:30 a.m. We must leave the hotel at 8:00 as we need to be at the airport by 8:30. This is the last stop of the journey before heading home. Guangzhou is where we will finish up all the appointments and paperwork to bring this adoption process to a close. We will also be reunited with the six other families. I am so excited for Alivia to meet all her new friends. On Monday, Alivia and her friends will have their medical exams to clear them for travel to the U.S. And then on Tuesday, we have our U.S. Consulate appointment. Jane told us tonight at dinner that our guide will take all the paperwork to the Consulate and we must remain in our hotel room in case there any questions regarding each of the families paperwork. Please pray for things to continue to go smoothly and that everything is in order as we take these final steps. I am quite nervous about this week, as we have come this far and I don’t want anything to interrupt the process.
     Continue to pray for all the babies both here and in Hunan, all are quite sick with coughs, fevers, and running noses as they trying to adjust to all the changes.
     Thanks and God bless – Lisa