Claire is with us and what a day it has been. There is no way to record everything that happened or how we have felt this day … but we’ll try our best to cover the bases.

I wanted to separate the day into a couple/few posts. So this day in the adoption community is called the “Gotcha” day … thus the post title. This morning we spent some time running errands and doing a bit of shopping. Nothing big, just basically trying to pass time as the anxiousness increased.

We woke up early this morning at 4:30am … still trying to adjust, I guess. We had a good breakfast buffet here at the hotel … not quite to the level of the Crowne Plaza experience in Beijing, but pretty good.  Many more items of the Chinese “you eat what? for breakfast” variety such as: spicy Thai chicken fillets, steak/onion/green pepper stir fry, etc.  The highlight for both Sandy and I was actually the whole wheat toast … seriously good bread.

After that we had some great skype sessions with Seth, Kate, Zane, Grant, Grandma and Grandpa Weeks as a group. Then we skyped with Tim’s family. Then with Greg, Aimee and Anna. Thanks to all for the encouragement and good words.

The general area where we are staying is called “Confucius Temple” … the sculpture in the picture below is of Confucius.  Here’s a quick sampling of our morning walk …