Ahh, our journey of “Bringing Mikayla Home” is coming to an end and a new journey is getting ready to begin. We leave our hotel at 9:30 am on Thursday (that is 8:30pm on Wednesday for those back home) and begin the long trip home. This has been the journey of a lifetime, and if I live to a hundred I will never have a trip like it again, even if I come back to China. I am so thankful and humbled by the gift that has been given to us. I want to sit down when I get home and have some time and wrap up my thoughts and put up some more pictures. Thank you to EVERYONE who has posted comments and sent us emails, it has been great to read them and know that we have the support of our friends and family at home, and even people who we have never actually met.

Today was a day for shopping mainly, tomorrow is our swearing in ceremony at the US Consulate. I was going to go to the zoo with Mikayla while Starla packed but it will make the day too long. I think we all need to rest up tomorrow because the following 48 hours are going to be very rough on all of us. Please keep us in your prayers for safe travel, patience, rest on the plane so we can visit with family in CA, and just God’s grace to be on us for this trip home. We have really enjoyed some parts of China and others have been an “experience”, maybe I can write more later. We are going to be glad to get home though.