Twas The Night Before Departure

'Twas the night before departure and all through the room not a creature was stirring, not even a… ‘baboon’ (come on work with me here)… The luggage was stack by the dresser with care, In hopes that tomorrow we will get out of here. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of plane rides danced in their heads; And mamma in her night shirt, and I at the desk, Had just settled down looking for rest. But then in my head there arose such a clatter, and I sprung from my desk because this poem couldn’t get ‘badder’…

Sorry

Hey this is it, tomorrow we head HOME! It’s 9:00 pm China time. Mei-Leigh, Jin Tao and Laurie are in bed. I’ll be there very soon. Our wake up call is for 5:30 am. And just a mere 31 hours after we get up our plane will land in Orlando! It should be fun… not. But we are coming home. And yeah, Dorothy was right there really is no place like home.

Today we made the one hour trip to the American Consulate and took the oath for Jin Tao to be a US Citizen. Pretty cool. On the way back we passed the train station in Guangzhou where 600,000 people were stranded because of the snow up north. There were tents and people everywhere. It was a CRAZY scene.

HEY keep us in your prayers for the last leg of this journey. We will spend about 20 hours in the air and another 9 hours waiting in 3 different airports. PRAY the kids SLEEP! PRAY that there will be no delays. PRAY the kids sleep.

How cool we will make our next blog update in America!

See you soon