8357 Miles and Back: Temple of Heaven and Hutong Historic District/Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and the Great Wall: Days 3 & 4

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Temple of Heaven and Hutong Historic District/Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and the Great Wall: Days 3 & 4

Dear Friends,

As I am finishing up this post to send out, we are getting ready to leave in a little over an hour to go pick up Anna at the adoption center after having just arrived in the southern province of Guizhou (city of Guiyang) by plane earlier today. This is the culmination of four years of hard work, dedication, patience and lots and lots of waiting. This is really what the whole trip is all about. Please think about us as we make the shift from five to six in about five minutes time :). It will happen about 5 pm here, August 23, which will be about 4 am your time.

I will catch you up on our wonderful stay in Beijing over the past four days soon...

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UnknownAugust 23, 2009 at 4:37 PM
OH MY GOSH!! I'm so excited that you guys are going to finally have a second lil' sister! It's so great that Anna will have a family to call her own too :) I'm glad y'all are having a fun-tastic trip and it's only going to get better now that Anna's there :D Hope the rest of the trip is awesome and can't wait to see you six. Love you all!
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Across the World in 23 Days...Again!

It all started a little over six years ago, when everything finally came together and Jay and Angelle decided to adopt a child...on the other side of the world. In January of 2005, they traveled (alone; that part is important) to the city of Changsha in China's Hunan Province to bring little Yuan Si Yu ('Thinking Feather') all the way back into our lives here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Nothing has been the same. Ever since that time, Rebekah Marie has plunged head first into life in general, and it is hard to imagine there ever having been a time when she wasn't here rearranging the living room, emptying cabinets, carrying around 6 different purses, and screaming at the top of her lungs...just because she can.

After Rebekah settled in...and the dust had cleared, the possibility that we might try to travel to China again to adopt a second time became a simple inevitability. And, when the earliest possible date to make the petition to adopt came, we signed up. Four years later, we are following through on that promise.

Starting August 18th, ALL five of us (Jay, Angelle, Landon, Micah and Rebekah) will travel the roughly 8357.2 miles to Guizhou Province's capital city, Guiyang, to adopt the little sister (our 'meimei') who we've been waiting to meet for such a long time. Follow us as we journey across the world in 23 days to meet little Cao Tian Qin, soon to be Anna Noel Tian High whom God has blessed us with...and see a few sights along the way! Until then, Zaijian!