Let’s Blow This Taco Stand!!

In less than 24 hours, we’ll be boarding a plane for the first leg of our flight to get our Lily Belle!  We’ll arrive in Beijing on Friday night and spend Saturday on a whirlwind tour.  Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, lunch at a local restaurant, the Great Wall, a “kong fu or acrobat show” (words of our guide), and a dinner of Peking Duck (Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra).  We will be some tired puppies on Saturday night!!

On Sunday we will fly from Beijing to Nanning, the capital city of the province where Lily lives.  We will have that afternoon and night to rest up before meeting our Lily on Monday morning!   I am not entirely clear if they will bring her to our hotel or if we will meet her at the local civil affairs office.  This will be Sunday night here in the States, and we would appreciate your prayers for our little girl who will no doubt be very afraid.

We will have a 24 hour “harmonious period” where we decide whether this is the right child for our family…  HA!  This sweet baby is as much a part of our family as if she had been born here.  But, this is what they call the 24 hours after “gotcha day.”  On Tuesday morning, we will go and sign the official adoption papers, and Qin Yan will be an orphan no more!  She will be our Lillian Isabella Keith, and there will be one less orphan in this world.

We came for salvation.

We came for family.

We came for all that’s good,

That’s how we’ll walk away.

We came to break the bad.

We came to cheer the sad.

We came to leave behind the world a better way.

~”Salvation Song” The Avett Brothers