Hi all. It's a bit early for me. I figured I'd play around with sleep deprivation and odd hours in practice for my new mom position. Stay up late and get up early and expect the unusual to become my usual. Suitcases are scattered about the house, Chinese teaching tapes are playing in the background as we hope to osmos the language, and we are armed with peanut butter, diapers and this incredible depth of love again for the unknown. I think about this boy, dream about this boy when I sleep and find myself locked in a dreamy gaze with his picture on a regular basis. And so our big moment has begun. Thanks for sharing it with us. Our flight leaves at 11:50am on Thursday. I for one am not a flyer. Never have been, and would appreciate your prayers for our travel. We will have access to internet at our hotel and plan to update prayer requests and loads of monumental praises I'm sure. So stay with us. Joe and I are packing extra Bibles, in hopes that God will provide some divine encounters and make the trip all the richer. I was excited to hear of full hour massages for under $10.00 american dollars given at the hotel having had one on my visit to Romania, until I reviewed the comments and found one rather in depth review of one man's shocking experience in what he described as a brothel, and was warned NOT to visit the saunas. Yikes and bummer. Have a great day and thanks for reading. Oh yeah, first response to this blog receives a free pair of custom chopsticks upon our return.

The Joe's