We are in China!!!!

Ni Hao!!!!! We have made it to China! After almost 20 hours of traveling we have finally stepped on Chinese ground. The flights were pretty uneventful. Actually, I must have to say it was fabulous. Chad and I saved our points to buy our tickets and we actually had enough to fly First Class to China! It was like a dream. We feel like we are on our Honeymoon we never got to take! First off when we arrived in Newark for our connecting flight, we were shown to the Continental Presidential Club! Oh, that was awesome! We literally had our own private room where we hung out and read books and talked until our international flight boarded. We were literally in row 1 of the entire plane. ROW 1!!!! It was awesome. We were treated like royalty! We ate more food on our flight then we did all of last week. We had Veal!!! On a plane!!! Cheesecake, ice cream, fresh fruit! Non stop beverages. I had a few Mimosa's!!!! They literally would wake you up to feed you more! We even turned down some snacks cause we were so full!!! It was definitely a moment we will cherish! It was a blast!

Then we arrived in Beijing, which is just an amazing city! Hustle and Bustle!!! We had our guide Thomas waiting as we got our luggage and we boarded in a mini van with another family who our adopting a 2 year old girl. They have a little boy now, who is traveling with them! He is so cute! Anyways, Chad was in awe just looking at the buildings, the traffic. Most of you would not know, but the "lucky" few who have traveled with Chad in the past know he is a City Scape Fanatic! He looked like a kid in the candy store! He just keeps staring out our window at the hotel and taking it all in! I am so happy we could share this together. It has been so special already, I can't imagine us having the memory of seeing Mariah. I swear he is going to cry!

Our hotel is gorgeous! We are on the 12th floor! YIKES!! But we have a great view of the city and all the crazy traffic and people. You just have to be here to believe the things we see as people drive and pedestrians try to walk. It is organized chaos!

I got to meet my friend Angela. She is the lady who helped me send Mariah's packages! She has been such a wonderful support to me these past 8 months and I was so blessed to finally meet her face to face and give her a hug! She drove an hour to our hotel so we could meet. She is so sweet! Such a wonderful warrior for the Lord and the passion she has for the orphans in China! I will cherish our meeting!


OK, I miss the kids so much! I started crying at the airport in Cleveland. Ryan sent us a text that he loves us and I just started to cry! They have all given up so much to make this happen! Then I started crying on our flight to China, knowing it will be 2 weeks before I see them is heart wrenching! If I even think about it for a moment, I just start crying. But then I think about after 2 more days, I will get to hold our daughter Mariah and it will make this trip all worth it and more! So I just wanted to say thank you so much especially to my mom and dad! Thank you for watching our kids so we can do this! I know when we first announced that we were adopting again over a year ago, they both were the first to say, how can we help! I don't think they realized that they would be helping out for 2 weeks!!! ha ha!! But when other's questioned our reasons, they both have been so happy and helpful from the start! And to Ryan and Marissa and little Mya Min, we love you so much, if hugs could reach across the world, I would squeeze you right now!

I will post some pictures tomorrow and information on our tour. We will be gone most of the day!

Thank you all for your prayers!!!

Mary and Chad