Last Day in Beijing

Today was another packed day of activities: visiting a jade factory, climbing The Great Wall and then flying down South about two hours to our daughter's province. We have enjoyed all the sightseeing in Beijing, but are so thankful to be able to be in Guangdong where we'll spend the remainder of the two weeks.

It doesn't seem real that at 2:00 tomorrow afternoon we'll be going to the Civil Affairs office and be handed a little girl. This afternoon our tour guide had to teach each of the families how to say their daughters Chinese name so that we would recognize it when they call our her name tomorrow. We think we have everything we need for her except shoes. We have no idea what size her feet are but very small sounds like a pretty good guess. As we anticipate meeting 20 month old Meili, two other families in our travel group will be accepting older daughters: one twelve and one seven. We are excited that our girls will have a couple of weeks to be together and look forward to keeping in touch with these families through the years.
We spent about an hour climbing The Great Wall and didn't get too far considering it was originally 4500 miles long.

Leanne and Maddie at Starbuck's in the Beijing airport. Maddie's family is adopting a seven year old girl.