We're in Lanzhou

So, we casually got up this morning, had breakfast, and boarded the plane to Lanzhou. We talked about the time we had to get things ready for the big day tomorrow and wondered what we would write about in the blog tonight.

After we landed in Lanzhou, we got on the bus, and our Lanzhou guide, Yisha, said to look at the schedule that she was passing out because there were a few changes. Well, I looked and saw that it said that we would be receiving our children (there is one other family in Lanzhou with us who is adopting a baby girl who just turned one on Tuesday) at 4:30 today. We were quite surprised and nervous. So, we got to the hotel in Lanzhou and quickly packed the gifts for the orphanage director and the nannies and got everything ready..... bottles, sippy cups, clothes, diapers, medicine, stuff for Jonah, our pajamas, and waited. Yisha came by to chat a little about her family (she was probably trying to keep us from getting too nervous). I rewrote the questions that I had for the caregivers.

Then we just waited.

And waited some more.










Then Yisha came at 6 to tell us that they were stuck in traffic in the mountains and were going to be another 4 hours.

So, we took Jonah for a walk outside. We saw this awesome exercise park with both children and adults exercising.










Now Jonah is asleep and we are still waiting. Hopefully we will be meeting our little boy in a matter of hours!!!! I will update again tomorrow.

-Katie