One year ago today we drove through the streets of Beijing to the airport, and flew with the kind and professional crew of Air China to Guangzhou. I remember those nice warm towels they gave you to freshen up before a meal. And the airline food in China was WAY better than any small bag of peanuts here in the good ole USA! We landed and were met by two of the sweetest ladies....Grace and Kathy. I am smiling, almost giggling as I type, remembering the way they ran to us and greeted us as if we were their long lost family. "Hello Brown family! Hello!" HUGE hugs all around! We were made to feel so special.
We settled into our very nice connecting rooms at the White Swan Hotel and met with the 10 other families in our group (they were all adopting non-special needs babies....our daughter was the only one in this group older, at 3 1/2 years old, and supposably special needs. Right.) We were handed our (now much coveted) breakfast tickets for the White Swan breakfast buffet. Sigh.
Then, we explored Shaiman Island. We supped at Lucy's, the "American" restaurant for the last time as a family of five and discussed our thoughts together. Then, the next morning, after breakfast we could hardly wait.....
READ ON...follow our journey again. Don't you just love remembering God's faithfulness to us???? I do!
Click here for one year ago today and then click here to see pictures of Guangzhou and a few from Shaiman Island...more pictures on the Island later. And then go here to read about the morning before we met our daughter. God is so good!
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