Off to Changsha

Last night was pretty difficult to sleep thru Garry woke up very early and I woke up at about 5:15 AM. Off to the airport at 8:30 AM and we meet up with another Crossroads Family also adopting a little girl 2 weeks younger then Sarah from the same Orphanage.
We left Beijing at 11:30 with a slight delay and the flight to Changsha though short was the worst experience of turbulence I have yet to experience. Even worse we did not understand anything the Stewardess said lol…… so we just sat and prayed.

We got to Changsha and met up with our local guide, did some paperwork after we checked into the hotel which is btw very very nice. The rooms are very big and there is just about everything you could need in the room, well ok there are no washcloths in the Hotels in China so if you travel soon make sure you pack some ;-)
Our travel companions are accompanied by their “adopted” whom spend a year with them as a foreign exchange student, he is from Beijing. He took us out to a local restaurant to experience some real Chinese food which was a pretty cool experience. Lets just say what we think is Chinese Food is not the true Chinese cuisine.

We found out that we will meet the girls Monday morning at 9:30 AM, which was even more difficult after our guide told us that the girls are already in Changsha. But we have to wait to meet them in the Civil Affairs office. Ugghhhh 12 more hours :-/

We are actually glad that we kept so busy sight seeing as it helped to keep our minds of the anticipated meeting some. But now that we are here it’s been really really hard for me to not want to go on a hotel hunt to find them lol……. Even more so after we found out that Sarah was moved to a foster home from the orphanage about a month ago and since then had to deal with a few health issues, which I am sure to ask more details about tomorrow. I was pretty upset to hear that she got a burn on her hand for one.

But for now we just have to wait, it is going to be a very long night.