Disclaimer and hopefully last post from Fuzhou

I just wanted to post a quick disclaimer after yesterday's post! I might have painted the Chinese people around here in a bad light and I didn't want to do that! There have been so many sweet, kind and helpful people such as ... Penny, our guide who has been so kind and invaluable... The girl at the Chinese restaurant who brought us silverware after we sat there looking at our food for a while and then resorted to using one chop stick and the porcelain soup spoon... The man at the hotel desk who ordered our pizza for us... The boy working behind the counter at KFC who helped us order our meal there (KFC has some work to do on the food though - not too impressed there!)... So many people who have genuinely smiled at us as we've passed by... The list really could go on and on - and we need to remember that as it's always easier to have the more negative experiences stick out! This week has been a very unique experience in many ways (outside of the obvious - coming across the world to bring our daughter home!). We have never been such the minority. Evidently this isn't a very touristy province, so we could literally count the number of people we have seen who aren't Asian on our hands. So not only do we really stick out, we also don't speak the language, so it makes communication very difficult! It has been good in so many ways - really even if Mya was the only good thing, it would be worth it anyway, but the fact that it doesn't feel like home at all makes us all the more homesick! We are aching to see our three boys at home. Please hug them for us whenever you get a chance!!

Just one more day in Fuzhou and we'll be on our way to Guangzhou and a step closer to coming home! We're supposed to get Mya's passport around 3:00 tomorrow and have a flight booked to guangzhou at 7:00 tomorrow night. We've had an awesome experience here in Fuzhou, a place we'll never forget. Penny took us to a Buddhist temple today, which while we're obviously not into the religion, it was pretty spectacular. While the weather has been nice here, it is so stinking humid (Shannon wanted me to point that out so you knew why her hair was so bad). Today was a perfect 55 degrees with very little humidity so we've been outside all day. For this post, I wanted to show some pictures of some of the things we've seen here in Fuzhou (in addition to some cute pictures of Mya of course). I also need to mention that it's such a pain to get pictures for our camera to my iPad that I'm not doing it today. I tried to upload a video as well, but it wouldn't work. As a result, all of these pictures are from my iPhone, which aren't nearly as good:

1. View of our hotel from across the lake.
2. The Starbucks on that famous street I mentioned in the last post.
3. The place in the hotel where we eat breakfast every morning.
4. Shan and Mya holding hands on part of the path around the lake.
5. Buddhist temple grounds.
6. Shan and Mya in front of the tallest pagoda in the fujian province.
7. Mya at the park. She was squatting down to imitate me as I tried to get down to her level to take the picture.
8. Shan and Mya just being cute!
9. Shannon on part of the boardwalk (this was pre-Mya...not quite the same smile as post-Mya!)
10. Shan and Mya at the entrance to the bridge to the island in the lake.

That's all for now. Please pray that there are no issues with Mya's passport so we can be on our way to Guangzhou tomorrow! Thanks!!