Greetings From Hong Kong!

David here ...  Yes, you read that right - we are in Hong Kong ...  Not where we wanted to be (or planned to be) at this point in the journey, but this is a journey and things don't always go according to our plans :>)  Our flight from Chicago to Hong Kong was delayed out of Chicago 2.5 hours (which means we got to spend 6.5 hours at O'Hare today; for the most part, Hannah did great!).  Unfortunately, our window for connecting with our flight from Hong Kong to Guangzhou was, you guessed it, 2.5 hours; which means we missed our flight to Guangzhou ...  So, United has put us up in the Airport Regal Hotel for the night and re-booked our flight to Guangzhou for in the morning - at 8:00, sigh ...  So, instead of a leisurely morning at the Pullman in Guangzhou, we will rush out of the Regal around 6:30 AM so we can go though immigration and get to our flight, then spend 4 lovely hours at the Guangzhou airport ...  United has supposedly intercepted our bags and will re-book them for us into Guangzhou in the morning - I suppose this is a courtesy (not having to deal with all of our luggage to and from the Hotel and checking-in in the morning), but that means we also don't have any of our luggage for this evening.  Lois and Hannah were smart and packed pajamas and a change of clothes in their carry-on.  Papa?  Not so smart ...

Hannah did great on the long flight from Chicago, especially considering the fact that she endured 6.5 hours at O'Hare (and being rudely awoken at 3:30 in the morning to start the day).  Of course she finally fell asleep in my lap about 30 minutes prior to us boarding our flight to Hong Kong ...  She is a trooper though and is very excited to be in China (well, almost China).  We are very proud of Hannah, and she has provided us with quite a few laughs on the way.  She has said "weeeeeee" everytime we have taken off (as well as "this is fun", "are we in the air yet?" and many more things I just can't remember).  She also didn't have any problems on the flights - in fact, she slept for 9 hours on theway to ong Kong; quite a bit more than did her Mama and Papa ...  She keeps saying "I can't wait to meet my brother!" :>)  And neither can Lois and I :>)  In the end we will jump through all the hoops and do whatever we have to, to bring our son home.

I could of course be wrong, but it just seems to Lois and I that there have been several "harassing" things that have happened recently; I know we have an enemy that is dead-set against famlies.  So, if you have a moment and could offer up a prayer for us to the Father, we would really appreciate it.

Regardless of how where our journey takes us these next few weeks, of this I am sure, God is good!  And 2.5 weeks from now we will leave Hong Kong with our son :>)