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Originally posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 3:37 AM CDT
Originally posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 3:37 AM CDT
Hello from Nanning
We arrived here after a 3 hour flight on China Southern airways from Beijing. The flight was very interesting as people were standing and talking during taxi, and I think the pilot spent more time in the back of the plane than the cockpit.
We arrived in Nanning around 4:30 PM local time and met our guide Alice. Alice took us here to the majestic hotel where we checked into room 1105. After dinner(let me tell you we are all very tired of Chinese food already), we took our bus to the civil affairs building where we were to meet the girls.(around a 20 minute drive from the hotel).
At civil affairs we were taken to the 9th floor and all waited in a room with the Chinese and american flags for the babies to come in.
The first baby through the door was our Emilie!!!!. She was wearing the same orange dress that she was wearing in the pictures of her and her foster parents. The foster parents were not there, so it was the director of the Nanning SWI who handed her to Lisa along with a bag of snacks,toys, and pictures that her foster parents sent along.
Emilie was as beautiful in person as she was in all the pictures. She was not crying until the other to babies in the group started to, but that ended on the bus ride to the hotel when she fell asleep in my (steves) arms.
We went to the rooms when we returned and took our family picture for our adoption certificate. Before that we played with Emilie and received some wonderful smiles. That changed when Lisa went downstairs to do paperwork and I tried to get her ready for bed. Emilie went ballistic.(I will probably be deaf in my left ear before we get home) We then paced the hall untill Lisa returned and we went back to the room and rocked her to sleep. She woke up twice during the night but nothing major.
We woke up this morning and let me tell you this has been a difficult day for all three of us. Emilie will not eat, and pretty much goes ballistic when we try to do anything but hold her. The other two babies in the group seem to be adjusting very well, but our little Emilie is having quite a rough time of it. Lisa and I would like to ask for your prayers that her adjustment to us and her new life be short. We have seen flashes of what is to come with her, but would like your prayers for her to get over her grieving her foster family.
After the paperwork we did today, she is officially ours in China's eyes, now we wait for passport for her and then off to guangzhou and then home.
God Bless
Steve and Lisa
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