Almost Home!

We are counting down the days now. Only 2 more days until we get home. We have had a wonderful time together but everyone is ready to get home. We completed our last official paperwork yesterday at the US Consulate and as of today at 5:00 p.m. we received the final paperwork to bring Hope home.


As we have been preparing to come home we had our interpreter Shyian come to our room and let Hope know a little bit about what it will be like when we get to Nashville. The first thing we wanted her to know was that we have 2 dogs. There just aren't that many dogs running around over here because they usually end up on the dinner table! A local joke about the Cantonese is that they will eat anything that flies except an airplane and they will eat anything with four legs except a table! We did not want her to be scared of our two dogs. Back up just a little bit. Last night we got some pictures from Bruce's aunt and uncle who are so graciously taking care of our dogs (thank you Charlie and Debra). We showed Hope the pictures of the dogs but did not really know if she understood. So, when the interpreter asked her if she was scared of dogs or if she had ever seen any dogs. Hope replied that she was not scared and that she had 2of her own. Shyian asked us if she had been in foster care and we said no. Hope said she had a white dog and a brown dog. Shyian asked her again and Hope replied in America! It was wonderful and amazing that she has bonded so quickly and feels 100% apart of our family, already. PRAISE GOD!!!

We are leaving early in the morning (5:45am) to fly to Beijing, then spending the night and flying out of Beijing on Sunday morning. We will arrive in Nashville at 3:05 Sunday afternoon from Chicago and will be traveling on American Airlines. Hope and the rest of us are ready to come home!!