Sunday, August 31, 2008

Tomorrow We Get Lily!

Today we flew from Beijing to Nanjing (2hr flight) and are staying at the Manderin Garden Hotel. Nanjing is a beautiful city, mostly new buildings and apartment complexes. It is supposed to be one of the more rich provinces in China. We found out today that our CHI coordinator here is Nancy who was our CHI coordinator 5 years ago in Guangzhou. She actually recognized us! We are all very tired and still have not gotten enough sleep. Emily has been doing great under the circumstances (lack of sleep), she only had one little melt down. We have really been enjoying the group we are traveling with. Most of us recognized each other because of our blog posts and pictures etc. The families that we are with here in Nanjing are all first time parents except us. Emily has really taken to Milena and Konstantin. They are both really nice people and they just love Emily. They are originally from Bulgaria but now live in New York. The others we are with are Pat and Wai-Ling from New Jersey and, Michelle and Daniel from St. Louis. 


Tomorrow we are supposed to get Lily at around 10:00 am. I say around because they are bringing the four children from four different orphanages and Lily's orphanage is one that is several hours from here and depending upon traffic etc. One nice thing is they will video tape our receiving Lily for us then give us a DVD to take home.....COOL! That's nice because nobody gets left out of the picture.

We've found it a little hard to post only because by the time we're back in the hotel room we're so exhausted it's hard to do anything. Hopefully since we are going to be here for 6 days we'll get some sleep and some more time to post.

Tomorrow is a big day, will try to post pictures as soon as we can, we know everyone in our family wants to see what Lily looks like now. 

Good Night for now!

2 comments:

The Hammersley Family said...

so when can we ichat and meet our sister?!? let us know so we can have jeremy and jen come over. it doesnt matter if it's an inconvenient time for us. whatever works for you is fine.

Anonymous said...

So exciting. We are praying for you and looking forward to seeing Lily's picture.

Glad all is going well!

Blessing,
The McLeod Family