Thursday-Saturday,
June 1-3, 2017

“When you get to the end of all the light that you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly.” ~Author Unknown

A New Adventure Begins…

Hi Everyone,

Here we are the beginning of another journey to China. Once again, we are going to meet a new member of our family member soon. It’s hard to believe that we will soon get to know Lucas for who he is and not just in pictures. We will get to move from speculating and wondering to actually knowing him…Very Exciting!

Jonathan & I are in our hotel room right by the airport settling in for the night. Unfortunately we both caught the nasty cold going around this past week and will be traveling under the weather. We appreciate your prayers for health and endurance.

Ted brought us down to our hotel while the grandparents shuffled the rest of the kids to dance classes this afternoon. We are blessed to have helpful parents!

Ted will be staying home this trip with the rest of the kids at home. One dad, six kids, mom gone…it could get a little crazy.

Our journey tomorrow begins by checking in at 3:30 a.m. Yes, I really did say that incredibly early time! We will “lose” a day during our travels and arrive in Hangzhou close to bedtime on Saturday, June 3rd. I’ll try to send a postscript to this post when we get there to let you know we all arrived before we crash into our beds as long as the hotel WIFI works when we get there.

Meanwhile, we are happy to be on the way to get Lucas and start next phase to bring him home. Thank you to everyone who has helped and supported and prayed and so much more to make this day possible!

Blessings,
Brandy & The Rest Of The Pancoast Family

P.S. We are here safe and sound after 29 hours of traveling. The trip went reasonably smoothly...only a one hour delay to start our fourth flight of the trip in Qingdao and a little missed connection with our guide but they both worked out fairly easily. Despite Jonathan & I both being hit with nasty cold going around before we left, we made the trip in pretty good shape.

Fun Moments...

1) Apparently I was the only one on the flight from Vancouver who was not Chinese so they just handed me the customs forms without needing to walk the aisles.

2) Jonathan found wonton soup in honor of Webster who loves it!

3) Amalie celebrates 9...yes 9... years in our family today (adopted June 2, 2008)...We are so blessed to have her in our family!