TOMORROW!!!

Tomorrow, tomorrow... I love you tomorrow... Your only a day away!!!!!!!!!! We have all been counting down the hours all day long! We get Abbie at 3:00 tomorrow! That is 2:00 in the morning for you! Before I tell you about our day, just wanted to let you know that we have been unable to view our blog and our comments! PLEASE email us at dkstaple@charter.net to let us read your comments! We were so excited to see that we had a few comments yesterday, but when we tried to read them it would not allow us.

We began this morning in Beijing. We had another delicious breakfast and then we got on the bus to the airport. Our flight took off at 12:30 and we arrived in Changsha around 3:00. Holt (our agency) has been wonderful! There is someone to hold your hand every step of the way! It made getting through the airport so easy! It felt so wonderful to finally arrive in Hunan- the birth place of Abbie! The first thing that I noticed was a lot of pine trees- She should feel right at home in Georgia! We got to our hotel and it is beautiful!!! I keep laughing because I have read so much about not over-stimulating your child at first and that will be impossible! This place is like a little version of Disney World! It is all decorated for Christmas! When you walk through the front doors, there is a HUGE Christmas tree surrounded by a rotating Santa in his sleigh with 2 reindeer and then the 5 mascots for the 2008 olympics in Beijing! All the adopting families stay on the 30th floor and there is a small playroom on the floor. When we walked into our room, I started to cry! There is a crib just waiting for Abbie! There is also a cute little Hello Kitty bowl and spoon, a little baby bath tub, a stuffed animal pig, and fish stickers on the bathroom tiles! I think this hotel is use to adopting families!

We have such a great group of families! There are 7 other families from Holt in Changsha. We love all of them! We are having an amazing time! It is just so difficult to put into words! Obviously, I am trying! A few of us decided that we needed to venture out for one last time before our arms where full with babies! Someone decided to ask one of the hotel staff for a recommendation (we decided that next time we will ask our Holt guide who stays with us 24/7, but we just could not find her that minute)! He gave us a map and told us where to go. Only a 20 minute walk, easy to find, lot of restaurants with English menus... So we walk, and walk, and play frogger with traffic (cars have the right of way in China). We could not find the place. We tried asking for directions, but no one spoke English. We finally found a Chinese restaurant that was very crowded and thought we would give it a try. No one spoke English. They walked us up 2 flights of stairs and into a little room with one table. We all looked around and said tomorrow is the biggest day of our lives, do we want to chance getting sick? So all of us walked back down the 2 flight of stairs and back outside! I think they just laughed at us silly Americans! We decided that we would take taxis back to the hotel! That was another great adventure!!! They drive crazy and Changsha is such a cool city (lots of neon!)! We made it back to the hotel and asked how much our tab was-about $1!!! We said that was the best dollar I have ever spent! Such an adventure!

We ended up eating back at the hotel at the Hunan Chinese restaurant- YUM!!!!! Some of the best Chinese food that I have ever tasted and I have had a lot! I decided that we will all have a great story to tell our girls about what we did the night before we got them!

Drew is already snoring, so I am going to try to get some sleep tonight! Sorry- no pictures, but I am sure you just want to see pictures tomorrow anyway! Good night!