The NEW Adcocks @ the Walmart
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
HAYDEN: Whimpers of the Night
TUES, July 6th, 7:45am
We had a great day yesterday. After getting Hayden we came back to our room and blew bubbles, ran the halls, and laughed a lot! Tracy and I signed papers in preparation for the official work today.
We had dinner in the "Food Court" (another blog all to itself!... let's just say it ain't like the Mall!) then went swimming together. We came home, gave her a bath, and she watched her favorite Disney show (trust me... you've never heard of it!).
After gathering as a family and praying together, we tucked her in and dimmed the lights. We never heard a sound from her, but the tears in her eyes told the story. She missed her Ma Ma and Ba Ba with whom she's lived for the past three years. I'm sure she's missing much more than she lets on.
Letting go of the past, we press on to the goal set before us. We are thankful for God's indelible thumbprint on this whole experience or I don't think we could get through this.
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Pictures of Hayden's Gotcha' Day!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d1music/sets/72157624300443379/
More later, but she's/we're doing GREAT! Heading to have a nice, Cantonese dinner to celebrate!
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Darrell Adcock
Darrell Adcock
D1musicjr@gmail.com
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
HAYDEN: We're IN LABOR
It's 12:48pm (Lunch-ish). We leave in an hour to convert the orphanage donation and in-country fees to Yuan. We will be with Hayden around 3:30pm. The contractions are hard, but we're using our "breathing exercises".... hee hee hoooo, hee hee hoooo....
KEEP PRAYING... the next 24 hours are critical.
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HAYDEN: The Great Wall
As Darrell said earlier, we didn't find any clothes we wanted to buy in the mall, but we had fun trying to communicate with the people there. And remember, Chinese people are small. It's crazy when McKenna is a size large! I'm glad my suitcase made it!
Our hotel is beautiful and the beds are comfortable. I had heard that beds in China are very hard and I wondered if we would find them comfortable. At least at the Grand Hotel, they are!
HAYDEN: Off the plane ~ Off to Tiananmen Square
HAYDEN: Adcocks In London
WARNING: VERY LONG POST WITH PICTURES. WE ARE HAVING TO SUBMIT BLOG ENTRIES THROUGH EMAIL, SO WE CAN'T MAKE THEM LOOK AS NICE AS WE'D LIKE, BUT YOU'LL GET THE IDEA. WE'LL POLISH THE BLOG WHEN WE GET BACK HOME.
We have not had much opportunity to update the blog because sometimes there was not internet access and when we finally had internet, the computer battery ran low because our power converters were (are) in our luggage--one in mine and one in Darrell's. Speaking of luggage, six of our seven checked bags arrived at our hotel in Beijing late Saturday night, so everyone now has clothes except for Darrell. Today we learned that his bag will hopefully make it to Beijing on July 8th. Unfortunately, we left Beijing about 2 hours ago (Sunday, July 4th at 2:05 pm local time). So, they will fly it to Nanning on the 9th. Unfortunately, we leave Nanning on the 9th and fly to Guangzhou. Darrell is being such a good sport about the whole thing. We are mostly thankful that McKenna's bag made it with the gifts we brought for Hayden.
We had hoped to get to see London while we were there, but because of flight delays, we missed it. I'm not sure how much of it we would've remembered anyway, because that was our hardest jetlag day. We all ended up sleeping in the airport while waiting for our next flight. McKenna even laid down on a bench and fit her body around the armrests and slept HARD! We did have a good lunch there, though. And it's really a good thing that we liked it because it cost $113!!! All three kids had a sandwich and fries. Darrell and I each had 1 piece of fish with fries (fish and chips, of course) and we had smoothies to drink. $113!!! Good thing food in China is cheap!
The trip from London to Beijing was supposed to be just under 10 hours long. Unfortunately, we sat on the tarmac for 2 hours while they tried to sort out the luggage issue. Thankfully, there are lots of movies to choose from, and each person gets to choose their own. And before I forget, I want to add that the food on British Airways was amazing for airplane food. Speaking Darrell's love language! For dinner we had a choice of braised beef with onions or curried chicken with rice. Each was served with salad, a roll, and raspberry white chocolate mousse. After dinner, hot tea with cream and sugar was served. SERIOUSLY! Then, for breakfast we had quiche with roasted tomato and (okay, this was a little weird, but it tasted good) beans--pork and beans style, served with a muffin and yogurt, juice, and again, hot tea afterwards. It's a good thing we ate it, too, because when we finally landed and then waited in line for 2 hours to register our lost luggage, we had no time to eat lunch before joining our group for sightseeing.
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