Nanjing – Day 1
We made it to Guangzhou! In the adoption world, this is like Mecca. The temps are much warmer (averages are in the 60s and low 70s while we’re here this week) so we will feel the freedom to be out and about in the sun […]
Special Needs Travel
Meeting Titus
After all the waiting and all the praying and all the traveling, the time finally came to get Titus on Monday, January 8. We didn’t leave for the civil affairs office (where we would meet him) until about 1:45, so we killed time in the […]
Redemption and the Reason for It All
We are now in Nanjing, the city where we will meet Titus for the first time, where he will become a member of the Black family forever. In the strange way that adoption works, it’s not the city where he was born nor the city […]
Day 2 in Beijing – The Great Wall, Jade Factory, Acrobat Show, and Night Market
We slept a little better the second night in China, mostly just passing out from sheer exhaustion and sleeping through the night with a little help from our BFF melatonin. We needed the rest though. Today was the Great Wall! The kids have been looking […]
Day 1 in Beijing – Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, a Hutong, and Peking Duck
We spent our first full day in Beijing exhausted but happy to finally be in China. We were up way before they started serving breakfast, and were second to the buffet when it opened at 6:00 AM. The only people that beat us were another […]