After breakfast we tried to get some pictures of the kids in their traditional Chinese outfits on the red couch. It worked about as good as last night - maybe a little bit better! Then we started the task of packing our stuff. I often just live out of a suitcase when I travel but for this trip it worked better to unpack our stuff and put it where it needed to be. We just had so much stuff - toys, food, medicines (or I should say a pharmacy!), clothing, etc. So anyway, it took a bit to get it all to fit back in and make sure it weighs less than 44 pounds (per Air China flight restrictions). At least we got rid of some of the food weight and gifts that we were to give to the officials however we probably bought just as much souvenirs to replace that! Who knows when we will be back. We have run into several families doing "homeland tours". We said we would love to come back in 10 years and bring the girls along and let Zeke visit his homeland again. Lord willing!
We went to Lucy's for supper tonight and enjoyed some hamburgers and shared a banana split! It was good! We are just about done packing for tonight. We have to get up bright and early tomorrow to meet our guide at 5:30 am. We fly from here to Beijing and then have a layover for awhile until we fly to Newark, NJ. We land there at 5:15 on Friday night so it will be a full 24 hours from the time we leave our hotel until we land in NJ. Please pray that it goes smoothly for us and for Zeke! It will be a long trip for all of us! Pray that we can get some rest on the plane.
Mommy and Zeke dressed in Chinese attire
A better red couch family picture
Violet and Zeke at Lucy's chowing down on noodles!
Our yummy banana split!
Praying over your trip home already. Your family will FINALLY be together so, so soon! So excited to meet that ball of energy!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing in your journey! God is good & he will see you thru as you begin the undertaking of adding Zeke to your family & raising him. Praying for safety as you travel home. Hope to meet your little guy someday!!
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Those pictures are great! Zeke is so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI just got done reading your blog, what an amazing journey to your precious son! What a gift from the Lord!!! A mutual friend of ours, Wendy VanWingerden, forwarded your blog to me since we are on this journey as well. We still have a ways to go though, right now we are waiting for the 1800a approval so we can send off our dossier.....oh, this waiting is so hard. I just want to get to the point where I can see the face of the one who God has chosen for us!! I will follow your journey home, and be praying for your transition and bonding, thank you for sharing...gives us a detailed and realistic look at what we'll be doing! God bless!
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