ONE MORE DAY, ONE MORE DAY, ONE MORE DAY......That is our chant today! Our guides spent the morning at the U.S. Consulate obtaining all the official VISA and passport finalization papers. We had to stay in our rooms from 10a.m. until they called us in case of any questions. Thankfully, we got a call around 11a.m. saying all was a "go". Tomorrow we go and take our oath and we are signed, sealed and almost delivered (to the U.S.A.) I did a few more house calls at our hotel and the other one and then it was time for the infamous Red Couch Pictures. This is where everyone in your group gathers together for group pictures and mainly it's mayhem! Technically, our group had 13 families, but since 11 of them were gone for the first week, the Dancy's and us sort of considered our group to be just us. Bree was acting like a typical two year old from the minute she awoke from her nap, so we knew this would be challenging for us. We were lucky to get her into her dress without much trouble.
The pics above are of Bree and McKenna, The Dancy's and us, some of the babies and all 13 families. We also got a great picture of us and our phenomenal guide, Jocelyn
Jocelyn has taken such good care of us. On our gotcha day, the orphanage director told us we owed the orphanage $327 yuan for xrays we had requested. We had been told by our agency that they wouldn't do the xrays we had asked for, but since he had a copy of the xray report, we paid him. He told us our agency had a copy. Long story short, CCAI did not have the report, so Jocelyn took care of securing a copy of the xrays done (hip, spine, chest) and getting it to us, which we sent via fax to CCAI and they translated in English (all in <12hrs).>
Many thanks to all of you who have helped out on the homefront during our absence-words cannot express how thankful and peaceful it has been to know our girls have had such care and concern and prayers over the past two weeks. Mema-we love you for all you have and are doing to keep the girls lives as normal as possible and filling in for us.
4 comments:
Hey Gang. Rina's been in touch to keep me posted on things w/Myah and otherwise.
Praying for ya!
I actually saw your red couch photo earlier today on the myadoptionwebsite.com site where another family w/your group is posting. Their daughter's name is Eva Grace - a young little one. I THOUGHT that was you, hubbie, and Bree but wasn't 100% sure. You look 14. Hubbie grew hair, and Myah had on her special dress.
Too adorable.
Enjoy the plane ride home. I can HARDLY wait. Ha.
Vicki
leaving in about 40ish hours...but who's counting?
Sister friend,
Its a long way home. I hope its uneventful. Touch base once you arrive so we know you got home safe...we love you...
Rina
Finally ONE MORE DAY!!!! YEAH ! I can hardly wait the pic's are beautiful . have a safe trip home.
love and prayers always
Kim L
Tracy,
Remind me to show you the pictures of our "Red Couch" adventure. One of Lily's friends accidently bumped into her...she started to cry and basically from there at least another few babies cried. It ended up that each mom actually held their baby, so that we could take a picture of our group. It is a non-traditonal "Red Couch" photo. It must have been exciting to meet all of the other babies!!! It sounds too as if you have made a good number of "House Calls"...you are using your skills and expertise to do God's work. This must be a great feeling!!! I am sure that many people have been comforted. Your trip to China has provided many blessing and memories to last a lifetime!! Enjoy!!!
Love and prayers,
Donna, Patrick and Lily
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