We ended up travelling with all 9 of us to and from Yinchuan. Samuel works better with everyone at his disposal and it was great to have everyone there to support Garnet. Unfortunately, this morning, both girls woke up with bad colds. Grandma is still recovering from one she caught last week (all three were sharing a room this past week). Samuel refused food and slept through breakfast. After his impromtu nap, he rose to the challenge and downed 4 sausages though. We rearranged some of our plans and had a slower morning, a Hot Pot luncheon including an interview with a local journalist (“Surprise!” our guide sprung on us as we drove into the restaurant parking lot with sick and tired and rumpled kiddos – Oh well!) and a tour of the Wetsern Xia Tomb site and museum in the afternoon.
This evening, we arrived at the airport and attempted to check in only to find that some of our tickets had odd comments attached and so we almost missed out on our flight, but for the diligence of our facilitator and our guide. Yay! Then we cleared security (they let Samuel be carried through this time and thankfully didn’t confiscate our liquid cold medicine or “Grandma Soap”/hand sanitizer) only to find that our flight had been delayed two hours. Many odd gift shop food iems later, Samuel took a long crawling tour of the departures area and we finally made it onto the plane intact. Half the kids slept or dozed. The other half caught a meal on the flight.
After sending four of us in the first taxi at the Beijing airport and almost being charged highway robbery for a van-taxi, we found a regular cab driver who would take the remaining 5 of us in one cab (the cabs are only supposed to take 4 passengers).
Arriving at the hotel we found out that our gear was still in our rooms, but our key cards no longer worked. The front desk quickly made new ones up and after picking up some gifts left for us at the Concierge desk courtesy of our dear facilitator and friend, we made our way upstairs.
Soft snoring is calling to me from the other side of the room.
Off to Guangdong tomorrow afternoon.
Good Night!
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Please pray for health and rest for our bunch.
We received some information that we hope to persue for Grace, just this evening. Pray that God would move clearly one way or the other on her behalf.
Pray for Jia Yi who I referenced in the other posts (Yinchuan). She is a very special little girl who very much deserves a forever family.
Pray for my brother and his family who are holding down many forts with us all gone. They are all very ill with strep and eye infections. Healing, rest and encouragement for all of them. Love you guys. Thank you for everything. It had meant so much to all of us.
Love,
