Big Day

Finally, we get to meet Mya today! Someone from the orphanage is bringing her here to the hotel and we get to meet her at 3:30 this afternoon (that's 3:30 am back home). We're very excited and anxious at the same time. So, we'll get to be with her from this afternoon for the rest of our trip! We're praying that she won't be too scared, and that she'll feel loved right away. We're just asking God to comfort her over these next couple of days as she gets used to us. It's a little scary to us and we know what's going on, I can only imagine what's going through her mind!

Shannon and I have had a great time, mostly walking around and checking out the city. What we've seen so far has been very pretty. Penny took us up to a national forest in one of the mountains up above the city yesterday afternoon, which was very cool. We had our first celebrity sighting as well - it was me. Some kids asked me for a picture with one of them...pretty funny! I also had a little girl (probably Mya,s age) stop in her tracks, cover her wide open mouth with her hand, gasp as if she'd seen a ghost and point up at me as she clung to her mom.....we're hoping for a different response from Mya, but at least we're prepared a little better now.

We know we have so much more excitement in store for us over the next few days here in Fuzhou with Mya. Please pray for a smooth transition today and we'll post some pictures later today. Thank you all for your prayers so far as the travel here was very smooth and Shannon and I have had a great time in the day and a half that we've been here! Here are a couple pictures from our hotel window....