A Quiet Sunday

Our poor travel agent had quite a time with our tickets on Friday. Her computer crashed and then Continental's went wacky and dumped our reservations not once but twice. We're ticketed now, so that is all settled. I think our agent, Sue Sorrels, was going to head for the liquor cabinet after she finally got our (and everyone else's) stuff straightened out! We will head for the Atlanta airport around 3:15am on June 24th, arriving at 4am - 3 hours before flight time. UGH UGH UGH. We'll fly to Newark and have 2 1/2 hours to chill before we head to Beijing, arriving around 2pm their time on Thursday the 25th. They are exactly 12 hours AHEAD of East Coast time. There are 4 families in our travel group on this same flight! There are 7 families in all. We'll meet with the others in Beijing.
If you read "Mark's Story" from a couple days ago, you'll know that he is having trouble sleeping during the day, while he's working midnight shift. I tried some black-out curtains and they didn't work at all. So this morning I installed MY version of black-out curtains... 2 navy blue comforters we had in the attic. They are terribly chic, nailed into the top of the window frames. But they WORK!! The bedroom is like a cave now. And Mark slept like a baby!
The new photos of us for Ke Xin and the letter FULL of questions for her orphanage and foster parents have been prepared by Ann at Red Thread and are on their way. I hope her foster mom has explained that we are coming to get her. I hope the transition isn't too much of a shock... You know she's going to be thinking, "Who are these crazy white people taking me away from everyone I know???"
Which reminds me - when we were at our local adoption group meeting last Friday, the host's adopted son, Sheridan, named Mark "giant". He said something like, "Hello giant - will you play with me?" while the rest of us were having a big "what to pack" discussion. Mark got the biggest kick out of that!!