Saturday, July 28, 2007

We're in China!


Our flight was long but tolerable. The food on the plane was good- lots of Chinese dishes. We're dealing with the jet lag by getting out of doing stuff. The Chinese people are very nice and helpful. They love to practice their English with us and often thank us when they find out we are here to adopt one of their daughters of China. We try to tell them we consider Mei Mei to be a gift their country has bestowed upon us.

We were able to take an afternoon tour of the Great Wall. We rode the sky tram up the mountain. It was very misty and our guide took us to a part that isn't so crowded with tourists. It was an awesome sight to behold and hike on.

Yesterday we had an orientation meeting and they gave us updated information about our babies. The picture of Mei Mei is blurry because we had to take a photo of her photo. It's nice to see her smiling. Her update indicated she takes her last bottle at 8:30 p.m. and sleeps through the night until 6:30 a.m. HURRAY! I guess we'll find out if it's true... tonight. This morning we will fly to her province, Jiangxi, and this afternoon they will bring the babies to us at the hotel. She'll be ours from that moment on. More tomorrow about our Gotcha Day.

Please give lots of hugs and kisses to the boys. We miss them so much but we know the're being well taken care of.

Colette and Jeff

PS Those of you in Ventura- please share this blog with Colette's mom and the boys. Thanks












Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Almost on our way!

We can't believe we get to meet our baby girl this Sunday! Our boys are getting excited. They are attempting to find all the little stuff (Legos etc.) from under the couches and their beds. Jeff finished the tile work in our beautiful bathroom. We passed our last home inspection by the city. Yeah! Colette never had a chance to refinished Mei Mei's dresser. It wasn't a big project. But it got placed onto the back burner until school starts for the boys. We don't think Mei Mei will mind a yellowish dresser instead of the antiqued white we plan on painting it. Some of our friends gave us supplies to take to her orphanage... thanks friends. We are each allowed one 44 pound suitcase (for travel within China). 44 pounds isn't very much. Every ounce and minuscule space counts. We will try to update this blog while we're in China so check back now and then.