Day 14: Flight Home & Reunited

Our flight home was nice...some of the best advice we were ever given was this: When you fly with kids, go to the dollar store and purchase something that they can open each hour. Gui Yu did awesome! Nothing like coming home!!! 

What a journey! As we were flying in I looked out the window wondered to myself how God does it--out of all billlions of people in the world, how does He cause these sweet little miracles to occur. Out of all the little girls in the world we could have adopted, we adopted the one that was ours--she fits perfectly! It is an absolute testimony that God is real and He is in the details of our lives! His 'tender mercies' are everywhere-and we have surely felt them over this journey to adopt!

After 16 plus plane hours, we are so happy to be home!

Day 13: Visa & Begin travel home

Today we started our first leg of our return journey home...our driver picked us up and drove us to the US Consolate, where our guide had Gui Yu's Visa ready for us, and then a 3 hour drive to Hong Kong. We are ready to come home!! Though the 15 hour flight tomorrow is a little daunting. But how can we complain--we are bringing home the dream!! 

It's pretty miraculous to think we have come from this...

To this...

Day 12: Oath and Consolate

THis Today we went to the US Consolate and did the oath (it wasn't as I expected--they have everyone in the room stand up and with your arm to the square and repeat some words). Then we turned her in paperwork and tomorrow we get her visa and travel to Hong Kong. It's been a good day though, Gui Yu is doing so good and she sure loves her moma!

Here is a video:

And here are some pictures:

This was a 'mall' of only jewelry. 

She got a little tired...

We found some 'jade's' part of her name 'yu' means jade: