Goodbye Beijing, Hello Zhengzhou

This morning we leave the city of Beijing and head to Zhengzhou (sounds like Jing Jo), the capital of Henan (Huh nen) province where our son is from.  Bags need to be packed and out the door by 6am, bus leaves at 630 for the airport. Our flight should take about 1.5 hours then we'll meet our new guides and head to the hotel.  We also get the most up to date information on little guy, what he eats, his daily schedule, what size cloths he's in etc..  This will allow us to get the proper items we'll need then we'll all head to Walmart of all places to do some shopping.

I will update on our last 2 days once we are in the next city.  I can't upload pictures of snack row this early in the am, I still have to get on a plane.  Though the food here is great this is one place we DID NOT eat!!!!  ugh

We have enjoyed our time here in Beijing and getting to learn more about our sons culture and his countries history. We also have a Great travel group which is awesome since we'll be spending the following few weeks with them all. I think we might be split between having boys and girls for our group, which is good to see. So far we have met 7 of the 8 families in our group.  2 of them have brought their children on the trip which is a great thing I think for the kids.  3 of us are first time parents and for all of us this is our first adoption.  

We arrived in Zhengzhou safe and sound, found our luggage, guides and headed to the hotel.  The funniest part of the am was stopping in the "toilet" as they say in China and having the girls laugh at us Americans as we wait in line for the sit down toilet.  I'm past the whole squatty potty and feel I've put my time in for now anyway.

The hotel here is wonderful such a step up from the last one.  We have plenty of room and were also delighted to see this when we walked through the door. 

Inset your little one here!  can't wait

We met our last group family at the airport.  They are adopting 2 boys, and already have 8 at home!  How awesome is that?  We all got checked in and then met to head to lunch together. The 1 of each family will be heading to the bank to exchange money while the other half of us get items together for our big day tomorrow.  Later on we'll head to Walmart to get some supplies. 

The air seemed much better to breathe, until we opened the window at our room.  We face a back parking lot/building so not much breeze here.  The front of the building is getting a great cool breeze, at least it was when we were outside.  And it's HOTTER than blazes in this room.  I am wishing I had brought my shorts. Ah and i figured out the problem, it's now getting cooler.  NO it was not turn down the thermostat because that doesn't work!

Will attempt to update later tonight or tomorrow am if I get up at my normal 4 am time. 

Tomorrow is our big day!  We hope you will continue to pray for us and our little guy.  Please pray for those in our group and the other parents who are no with us but will also be meeting their little ones tomorrow.  We have much healing to do on these tender little hearts, but we know God is awesome and he brought our children to us. 

Blessing to you all.