Thursday, August 5

This will be the last time we can blog before coming home. This has been a good experience and we are grateful for the opportunity to spend time in the country where our children were born. Our traveling begins Friday evening at 5 pm from Guangzhou to Hong Kong on a bus for 3 1/2 hours. We will spend the night in Hong Kong and leave for the airport at 5 am Saturday morning. We will then fly from Hong Kong to Tokyo then Tokyo to Detroit where Levi will become a US citizen as soon as we touch ground. We should arrive in Raleigh after 7 pm and then drive 2 hours home. It will be a long trip but worth it. Hopefully we will be able to sleep part of the way. Levi likes to be moving so the travel may be a little difficult on him. Pray for us as we make the journey home.

Today (Thursday) we went to the Consulate and took an oath for our adoption. We are thankful to get that done and we should have Levi's passport and visa tomorrow afternoon. We will be glad to have everything done and get packed up.

Thanks for all your prayers and support for Levi's adoption. We could not haave made this trip without our family and friends. Keep praying for us in the days to come as we adjust to being a family of four.

The pictures included are some of the things we have done the past few days. We were able to have dinner with many of the families we have come to know and it was lots of fun. These are also pics of Levi at Shaiman Island Park looking at the statues.