WE ARE IN CHINA!!!

Well, Mother and I made it to China. The Northwest World Business Class is AWESOME!! People... start saving your frequent flyer miles!! It is definitly worth it! So...In Tokyo when we changed planes, they confiscated all of our bottled water. Ughhh. We had no Japanese money...but I found some little place, Tatsu that would take USD so i could buy a miniture perrier for $4.00. Also there is a Mickie D's in the Tokyo airport that supposedly would take credit cards but I just could stand in that long line. Then when I gate checked one of sit n strolls in tokyo, they didn't bring it back up to me at the jetway after waiting and waiting and asking and begging. So it came out with the luggage fortunately. Then we pushed our great big overloaded luggage carts through customs after loading them, unloading them, scanning them and re loading them. Fun, Fun! Then we proceeded out into the GZ airport where someone was suppose to meet us and take us to the Novotel Hotel. Uhhhh... they weren't there. So.... I saw a sign pointing the way to the Novotel hotel and follow those down these extremely long and dark hallways under the GZ airport. (BTW it is like midinght at this point.) It lead us out the back of the airport into a garden area with a long slope up to the hotel which took us into the back of the hotel with no elevator to put our luggage. So some bellhop carried it up to the mezzanine and put it on the elevator to take it down to the lobby. And this is where we found they didn't have any reservations under our name. So... after many discussions of yes we have a reservation, they finally determined it was under a travel agents name. Phew! And then..... my Panda phone(Chinese cell phone rental) had not arrived. UGHHHH!!! Well, after many unsuccessful discussions i just let it slide until this morning when I raised some Alabama hell. Oh... our guide has just shown up. Must go see GZ now. BTW.. We are already laughing about the mishaps. Oh and if you try to call us at the Novotel, you have to give them our room #.

8 MONTHS OLD....

Jin, Bi Yun

Jin, Bi Xia

Just wanted to let everyone know that the girls are now 8 months old!!! Happy 8 months to my babies!!! We should have them in our arms before they are 9 months old. Travel dates are still tenative but it is really close. And we received our Travel Approval yesterday, as well. So our Consulate Appointment has been requested. When we get confirmation of our CA then we buy plane tickets!!! OMG! Who is excited??? ME!!! That's who!!!

DOUBLE HAPPINESS..........

JIN, BI YUN


JIN, BI XIA

IT'S LOOKING LIKE DOUBLE TROUBLE.....

Well...its referral time again. And this month we are overjoyed and....overwhelmed to announce that we received our referral for TWIN GIRLS!!! They are 7.5 months old.
Province: Guangxi (This province is just west of Canton/Guangdong Province.)
DOB: October 27th, 2007
Name: Jin, Bi Yun
Name: Jin, Bi Xia
Pictures to be posted ASAP!!!
PS. Thank-you to everyone at Nightlight Christian Adoptions especially Sabrina and Kathryn!

STORK ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I'LL RIDE MY HORSE IF I WANT TO....

Yep, it's my birthday again. Who would have guessed I still wouldn't have Maxine home with me for this birthday??? Not me. Not Mok. Not Mother. Not my sisters. Not anyone. I would have at least thought I would know where she is, who she is, how old she is, etc... but alas no referral yet.
So I spent my birthday at the barn with my mom and my equine baby girl. At least she(my horse) behaved herself today for her momma. But nothing could compare to yesterday when I got to ride 2 of the greatest horses ever. Of course they aren't mine....yet. ; ) But WOW they are amazing animals. Thanks to RTS for letting me ride them. : ) So, we are off for a yummy birthday dinner tonight at AOC. Maybe I will capture some video on my new FLIP video camera. : )

http://www.aocwinebar.com/menus.html

These are the small plates we had at our table for dinner. YUM!
goat cheese, dried figs and saba
roasted dates, parmesan and bacon
house-made foie gras terrine (OMG!!!)
marinated beets, olives, fried chickpeas and feta
gnocci with lobster, pancetta and truffle butter
lamb, grilled flatbread, favas and pine nuts
rabbit ragoût with dijon, chestnuts and tarragon (Mok ordered the Easter Bunny...yuck.)

NO NEWS IS NOT NECESSARILY GOOD NEWS...in this case.

Well, as you all probably know or have guessed, we were not included in the May batch of referrals either. Soooooo...in case you lost count, we (all Nov 2006 expedited LID families) have been skipped 5 months with no referral. That means no expedited referrals have been sent out since the beginning of December. (*^*^@%#^@#)(_)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They (the CCAA) stopped sending out expedited referrals right before they got to our LID. Oh, lucky &%%@*$@# us. NOT. Yep, that's what I said ....no expedited referrals have been sent out since the beginning of December!!!!!!!!!! No reason. No word. No explanation. No idea. No guesstimate. No nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. This referral purgatory has taken a turn south. So, that's about it in the No News category for us. Stayed tuned for the slow and painful descent into Olympic hell of travel dates, no referrals, and exorbitant travel costs.
PS. The Olympics are 8-8-08 through 8-24-08.