We left Fort Collins at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 16th. We rode on four different planes, lost a day and now we are ready for one sleepless night before our gotcha day. That means that all 11 of the families in our group will drive to the Provincial Office tomorrow and get our babies!
The picture with us on the chairs was taken at the Bradley International terminal at LAX. Hands-down the worst airport terminal for comfort, crowds, expensive food, cranky TSA staff that we've ever seen in the US or abroad!
The video below is DeeDee trying to learn a few Chinese words on the way. Ex: "thank you" = sheeyuh-sheeyuh
"hello" = nee-how
Kristina took this video sitting in LAX, about to get on the 15 hour plane ride to China.
Kristina took this video sitting in LAX, about to get on the 15 hour plane ride to China.
We arrived in Guangzhou around 7:30 am (the picture with the airplane at the top of this post is Kristina and Dee on the tarmac just after landing), went through customs, then caught our final plane to take us to our destination for the week: Changsha (a "small city" with a population of 6 million). We're staying in a very nice hotel, the Dolton. All of the adoptive families are staying on the 30th floor. It seems this hotel hosts a lot of adoption groups because the 30th floor has a baby/toddler play room just for the little adoptive babies. The hotel service people speak english and are impeccably polite and very friendly. The view from our room is quite spectacular at night, with dozens of skyscrapers decked out in high-tech, neon-style light shows.
We went to bed around 8pm Sunday evening (about 5am Sunday in Colorado). John is finishing this post around 5am Monday (2pm Sunday in Colorado). This is the big morning! The next time we post, we'll have Melissa with us.
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Until next time, thanks for reading, and God bless you!
4 comments:
Hi guys,
We're glad everyone's safe so far. We've been praying for you. Good luck tomorrow. My niece Amanda is from China also, Carl's daughter. The amazing thing is that her middle name is Mae also! She's a sweetheart and I'm sure Melissa will be too.
Marcia and family
Web page looks good. Glad you are safe thus far. You are is our prayers. God Bless.
Mark, Sharla, Kyle, Katie, and Karson
Hi Mom and Dad,
I can't wait for you to get Melissa. You probably already have. I like the video of mom practicing Chinese. Love, Timothy.
Hi Mom and Dad,
I saw the video Kristina took of mom. And, we are going to the Hunts tomorrow (Monday, change in plans,no worries). We have Chester here with us at the Henevelds.
XOXOXO, Daniel
Hey Dee Dee and John,
Everyone is doing well and getting along pretty well (just a few, minor squabbles!). John's dad is having a Cat Scan tomorrow (monday in Denver), so we are keeping the boys until then. Keep the update coming!
Nina for all
Hello Hunts,
SO glad that you made it safely to China, and we are so excited for you to meet Melissa in person! We will be praying for you tomor--um...probably right now! Can't wait to see more photos and to hear about your meeting her. Sounds like your hotel is great. What a blessing.
The Diks
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