It's Almost Here!

We had a super full day today. We started at a Christian church service. The only reason we were allowed into the church is because we are foreigners. You actually have to show your passport to be able to enter. The service was emotional just knowing that the Chinese people are not allowed to worship like we do. The worship team was a very multi cultural group. I would love to know their stories and how the ended up in communist China leading a worship service.

After the service, we went to lunch and enjoyed the Chinese version of "western" food. Have I mentioned that the food is not my favorite part of China? I have to say, I am so proud of the boys. They have been so willing to try new things and have liked some and disliked a lot, (same as me :) ) They just find a couple of things that they can eat and have been fine. Cade did have his first gagging bout at lunch. Poor thing took a big bite of "chicken pizza" and then decided that he didn't think it was chicken after all. We made him swallow it, but didn't know if he actually could for a minute. We think it was some kind of mushroom. I had a very similar incident at dinner tonight with a boiled shrimp. I'll just say... we're not in south Louisiana anymore.

We then went to the Olympic park and saw the water cube and birds nest. It was fun to see and the boys were treated like celebrities. They had a couple of picture opps, and loved every bit of it. By the way... I'm a celebrity here too. Not because of the blond hair (though I do get lots of stares) but because I have 3 boys. I have gotten more than one hug from a young girl when she finds out that all the boys are mine. They say I am very lucky. I agree, but not for the same reasons!

Tiannemen Square and the Forbidden City were next. Bryce was so excited to see the Forbidden City. He has talked about it for 2 days. I have no idea why or even if he knew anything about it. I have to say... I think he is the only one that had a great time. It was a TON of walking and it was FREEZING!!! I don't even know what the temperature was, but you'd subtract at least 10 degrees for the wind chill factor! This Louisiana girl was pretty miserable. In fact, one of the moms came up to me and said, "Why are they punishing us when all we want to do is adopt a baby?" So funny, but very true.

The Pearl Market was next and that might have been my favorite thing of the day. I bought a beautiful strand of pink pearls for Wesleigh when she gets older. I wanted one for myself, but decided against spending any more money. By the way Michelle, you owe me some money!!

Dinner wrapped up the day. Yep, not such a fan. That's ok, we have plenty of snacks in the room. Right now, it's 8:00pm and we just finished packing everything up. We leave the hotel at 5:30am for the airport! We have an 8:00 flight to Nanjing. The day we've been waiting for all this time is finally here! I really don't know if I believe it yet. It's a lot of fun to see all the families so excited. I can't wait to see them all in Guangzhou when we all have our children. They say we'll have a little time to get checked into the hotel before going to the civil affairs office to get Miss Wesleigh. We are all so excited. The boys started fighting over who was going to get to hold her first. Of course, I set them straight and told them they better get in line.... behind ME!! I am so excited to see what tomorrow brings. I'll post a picture as soon as I can.

You can probably tell by the length of this post that I'm much more rested today. I think Diana has had to rewrite my posts so you can even understand them. I wasn't able to put two sentences together my brain was in such a fog. I'm still tired, but not exhausted like before.

Thanks for all the support and prayer. If you're not commenting...please do. I'm going to print them all as a keepsake for Wesleigh later, all the wonderful people who followed our journey to her. You can sign as anonymous if you want and sign your name in the comment. Thanks!...I love seeing them all!!

The next time I post, I will have my little girl....can't even believe it! Can't wait!! One more sleep!!