It is an adoption tradition for every travel group to take a group photo of the children on the red couches at the White Swan hotel. We may only be a travel group of one family but we sure do fill up a couch pretty well. We fly out from Guangzhou tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. heading for Beijing and arriving around 12:00. Then we have a four hour overlay before we have the really long flight to Chicago, almost 13 hours. Then it is a 3 hour overlay as we get through immigration in Chicago and finally fly home to Maine. We should arrive around 10:30 on Friday evening. There are a bunch of adoptive families on the flight to Chicago that we have met here so that will be nice.
Levi is especially excited about flying to America and having Po Po and Gong Gong pick us up at the airport. Po Po is the nickname for maternal grandmather and Gong Gong is for maternal grandfather. We have been using our Mandarin a lot with the boys. Aaron had more opportunity to learn Mandarin since he had a quiet half hour each way to and from work to listen to the Pimsleur Mandarin CD's. Aaron told Levi that I speak Chinglish (Chinese and English mixed together) and Levi thought that was hilarious.
You all look so great! I remember what it was like to live in a small hotel room with three kids - I can't imagine four! It's funny, though, how we all make it work. Levi's drawings are amazing! And I love the photos of Isaiah with the statues - so neat to see how much he's grown! Thanks for sharing your journey! - Kim Taylor
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