Thursday, June 28, 2007
Journey day 5 - Gotcha Day
Our Gotcha day was unexpectedly moved up a day so this was a very busy and emotional day. We started out with our last breakfast in Hong Kong 7:00am, loaded up and traveled to the Hong Kong airport. Flew to Nanning, drove over an hour to our hotel. Got checked in, grabbed a quick dinner and then to the conference room around 7:00 pm that would serve as our paper work room and Gotcha room. The children arrived at 8:00pm.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Journey Day 7
Hello everyone
For some reason the Blogging website does not work very well here in southern china, we have tried for 2 days straight to find a way to make it work and I think we have got it. Here are a few pics again and later today we will get more posted, as long as it will let us log back in. They are very excited to take us shopping today at thier big shopping area. WAL-MART and the good food around it, KCF, McDonolds, Pizza hut.
Sophia has had a very rough 48 hours and we are all feeling it.
Please keep the prayers for her coming
For some reason the Blogging website does not work very well here in southern china, we have tried for 2 days straight to find a way to make it work and I think we have got it. Here are a few pics again and later today we will get more posted, as long as it will let us log back in. They are very excited to take us shopping today at thier big shopping area. WAL-MART and the good food around it, KCF, McDonolds, Pizza hut.
Sophia has had a very rough 48 hours and we are all feeling it.
Please keep the prayers for her coming
Monday, June 25, 2007
Journey Day 4
Our day started early with breakfast at 6:45....breakfast buffet fairly normal just with some fried rice and dim sun thrown in for good measure, I personally ate some Frosted Toasties known to most as Frosted Flakes.
This morning was our first time together as Travel Group 1184. There are 25 people, 9 families... all wonderful. A big mix ... some first time parents, many old hand parents and one family from Philly who is here for their second adoption...their daughter Chloe, 4 yrs, is with them, they are a sweet glimpse into our future :)
Our group tour began at 8 am sharp. We drove through the city and wound our way up to Victoria's Peak, an amazing view of the city and the South China Sea, it was funny all along the way all of Jackie Chan's anythings were pointed out, his office , his home....later we even saw his boat. Not sure if they love him but they know that we Americans are intrigued.
We rode around the harbor in a little fishing boat...local fishermen have two boats, one for them and their family to live on and one to go out to sea in a week at a time...our "captain" was quite a character.
We visited a jewelry factory, jade, pearls, it was a kind of tourist trap thing.....we then went to the Stanley Market a great flea market style place where you can barter all you want and just soak up some local culture....
Our tour ended with a group DimSun Lunch it was fun...we tried quite a few interesting dishes Maggie (see below) was even giving chop sticks a try :)
After lunch we could go back to the hotel or stay in the city....we put on our adventure hats and stayed downtown.....we had a great time navigating the rail system.....Ali and Michael did a great job locating our stops....the picture of the family on an escalator is the longest escalator in the world....it is like a transit system up through the city you just get off at your stop....amazing....we walked through SoHo and then rode a Ferry back over to the other side of the city where we traversed a 700 store mall and then ended our day at the Hard Rock Cafe...our last Western meal before we travel futher into China tomorrow
The last picture was our taxi ride back to the Regal Riverside....Matt and Maggie both crashed out immediately.
As if the day wasn't already amazing enough when we arrived back to the room we received WONDERFUL NEWS....GOTCHA DAY has been moved up a day.....we should have Sophia in our arms by tomorrow afternoon. God is Good....All the time.
We love you all...thank you for the comments...they are a constant encouragement to us all...we huddle around the computer to read them so thank you, thank you.
Newlins in China, Out.
This morning was our first time together as Travel Group 1184. There are 25 people, 9 families... all wonderful. A big mix ... some first time parents, many old hand parents and one family from Philly who is here for their second adoption...their daughter Chloe, 4 yrs, is with them, they are a sweet glimpse into our future :)
Our group tour began at 8 am sharp. We drove through the city and wound our way up to Victoria's Peak, an amazing view of the city and the South China Sea, it was funny all along the way all of Jackie Chan's anythings were pointed out, his office , his home....later we even saw his boat. Not sure if they love him but they know that we Americans are intrigued.
We rode around the harbor in a little fishing boat...local fishermen have two boats, one for them and their family to live on and one to go out to sea in a week at a time...our "captain" was quite a character.
We visited a jewelry factory, jade, pearls, it was a kind of tourist trap thing.....we then went to the Stanley Market a great flea market style place where you can barter all you want and just soak up some local culture....
Our tour ended with a group DimSun Lunch it was fun...we tried quite a few interesting dishes Maggie (see below) was even giving chop sticks a try :)
After lunch we could go back to the hotel or stay in the city....we put on our adventure hats and stayed downtown.....we had a great time navigating the rail system.....Ali and Michael did a great job locating our stops....the picture of the family on an escalator is the longest escalator in the world....it is like a transit system up through the city you just get off at your stop....amazing....we walked through SoHo and then rode a Ferry back over to the other side of the city where we traversed a 700 store mall and then ended our day at the Hard Rock Cafe...our last Western meal before we travel futher into China tomorrow
The last picture was our taxi ride back to the Regal Riverside....Matt and Maggie both crashed out immediately.
As if the day wasn't already amazing enough when we arrived back to the room we received WONDERFUL NEWS....GOTCHA DAY has been moved up a day.....we should have Sophia in our arms by tomorrow afternoon. God is Good....All the time.
We love you all...thank you for the comments...they are a constant encouragement to us all...we huddle around the computer to read them so thank you, thank you.
Newlins in China, Out.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Journey Day 2 and 3
The nomads checking in -LAX
Our slow boat to china
13 hours and counting
TOUCHDOWN!!!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Journey Day 1
Monday, June 4, 2007
We are going to China!
We are so excited to share that we have
preliminary dates.....We have to be in
Hong Kong no later than Sunday, June 24th.
We will travel to Sophi's province on
Tuesday, June26th, and she should
be in our arms on the 27th!!! Gotcha!
Our Consulate appointment is July 5th,
with a travel home date of July 7th.
Hopefully this week we will receive a more
detailed itinerary. It is getting closer.....
Sophia is Walking
It is official, Sophia is walking.
She is 20.5 pounds and 30 inches.
Still no hair for bows....what is a
mother to do...
Travel plans are on the way.
Will update as soon as we hear any
word.
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