Today was a fun day. We took Olivia down to the pool for swimming. I think it must have been too cold for her because she liked it for a few minutes but not much more than that. As Olivia and I were resting Patrick went to the electronics wholesale market that is just a 10 minute walk from here. He said that it is incredible- all the electronic things you could want are sold there- and made there. It was the boy equivalent to the pearl market for the girls. I am glad I didn't go with him- I probably would have been bored to tears! When he got back we had to wake Olivia up so that we could go to the US Consulate here in Guangzhou. We basically said yes, this is us and yes, everything we have told you is true to the best of our knowledge. This is when the US completes our paperwork and as far as our end is concerned we are done!!!!!! The US government acknowledges that we have adopted her! HOORRAAYYYYYY! Everything went very well. This took awhile because there were 40 families adopting and taking the oath. We are not allowed to even have cameras in the building so we don't have photographic evidence of this event. We then got back on the bus and went back to the hotel. Our whole group went to a celebration dinner at the Chinese restaurant that we went to a couple of nights ago. It was yummy. Then several of the families had a prayer time as some of our group is leaving tomorrow and this was our last social time together. We went to the tea shop and made our purchases after several times visiting. We are finding that although it seems like we have been here forever we are running out of unscheduled time. We just have a couple of things to pick up tomorrow. Something I don't remember if I have mentioned are the beds here. They are soooo hard- like the firmest mattress then a little bit harder. Not very comfortable at all! My back is so looking forward to the nice beds at home.
Tomorrow is our last full day here. We are counting the hours.
Our flight gets into Boise on Sat night at 9:05pm on Alaska airlines from LA. If anyone would like to come and see Olivia in person they are welcome.
Love to all,
Patrick, Donna, and Olivia
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Donna,
ReplyDeleteWe are so glad that things are wrapping up for you all and it has gone so well. We will defintely try to be at the airport to see you when you come in.
Good Luck,
Rob & Joyce Hartley
I wish I had known you were going to be in LA for 4 hours, I would have come up to see you! I am reading this too late. Not sure if that is even possible though now that I think about it. I am so happy for you guys, we will be praying for you as you settle back into reality of life!
ReplyDeleteWe love you guys so much!
Justin and Kirstin