We Leave Tomorrow!

I can't believe we leave tomorrow! It's going to take an eternity to pass... We don't leave for Minneapolis until 5:55pm from New Orleans. Peter is going to take us to the airport and we'll leave the house around 3:00pm -- as I'm not sure the international check-in time of 2 hours before your flight applies since we will be spending the night in Minneapolis. We arrive in Minneapolis at 8:45pm, spend the night there, then depart on January 2nd at 1:00pm for China -- through Tokyo. We'll arrive in Guangzhou around 10:30pm on January 3rd. Can you say LOOOONNNNGGG flight? But boy they end is worth it!

We of course will have black-eyed peas, cabbage and ham tomorrow before we leave -- have to ring in the New Year right!

Today is final packing day... Adella is cleaning and I'm washing and packing our clothes and carry-ons of goodies to keep us busy during the flights. Everything else is ready to go.

I got an email update from Tammy (our orphanage volunteer friend in Shenzhen)... and she mentioned again today, how happy and joyous Qiao Qing has been the last few days... like she knows we are coming! Our prayers are being answered.