First thing first! Jason and I are praising God that we have completed our journey of waiting and began the journey of living the life of being adoptive parents. It was very difficult during such an amazing time to not be able to log on to my blog to update those who where praying us through our journey. My heart is still so full of emotions and memories that are etched into my most inner precious experiences of this life. I feel compelled to look back and share the experiences that we had in China..... meeting our daughter.... and God's perfect love.
February 8th, the night before our journey Jason and I tearfully dropped off Brady and Jadon at Nanna's house so we could fly out at 5:23 the next morning. It was such a bitter sweet moment. On the cusp of something beautiful. The end.....yet the beginning of our adoption journey.... taking 14 looooong months of waiting. Yet my heart was already mourning the children that I would miss so deeply over the next 15 days.
Here we are the night before.... Laying sleeplessly in our bed with wild anticipation of all the wonderful what if's of traveling across the world to be united with the child God hand picked for us. The child that we have loved with heart wrenching joys and agonies from another continent for the better part of the last year.
At 3:30 Feb.9th, Jason and I awake to be whisked off to the Pasco airport . Our flight ascends into the beautiful unknown at 5:23 am.... Right on schedule. From beginning to end we hopped 3 planes and traveled 30ish hours to finally touch down in Beijing. I will confess, it was one of the most difficult trips I have ever taken. I swear I have ADHD and sitting still for that long was a KILLER. It may not have been so bad if I wasn't sitting sandwiched between Jason (window) and business guy (aisle). Business guy was sleeping for 10 of the 13 hour flight so there was not even the luxury of walking around, not to mention, using the restroom.
We finally arrive in Beijing and are met by our wonderful guide Kandy. At this, we are one day closer to meeting our daughter.
As soon as we enter our hotel room I attempt the net. In HUGE letters across the screen there is an alert. "Warning Facebook and other foreign sites are blocked" What? You have to know I did try it any ways. Sure enough....No Facebook. I was not that upset because surely google would be accessible. Most of you already know that Google was a blocked site as well. At that point I was totally exhausted and could not even problem solve. Off to bed, and again one day closer to Josie.
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