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Trip to China
January 25
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January 26
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January 27
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January 28
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January 29
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January 31
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February 1
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February 2
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February 3
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February 5
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Final Travel Update
OUR
ITINERARY
We are so excited! We leave in less than 2 weeks!
A few short days until we meet our precocious Leah!
January 23 Leave Charlotte for JFK then Hong Kong
January 24/25 Arrive in Hong Kong and tour Hong
Kong
January 26 Arrive in Beijing
January 27 Sightseeing at the Forbidden City and
the Great Wall
January 28
Fly to Changsha and meet LEAH in the afternoon!!!!
January 29 Registration and Notarization
January 30 Local sightseeing: visit Provincial
Museum
January 31 Local sightseeing: visit Embroidery
Museum
February 1 Local sightseeing: visit Yue Lu Academy;
Get passport, Fly from Changsha to Guangzhou
February 2 Physical and Photo taking; Local
sightseeing: visit Walking Street
February 3 Local sightseeing: visit Six Banyan
Temple and the Temple of Family Chen
February 4 Visa Application
February 5 Local sightseeing: visit Liu Hua Lake
Park; Get visa
February 6 Leave Guangzhou
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Were You Born Today?
Were you born today across the ocean deep and blue?
Did someone wrap you warmly? Did they stop and gaze at you?
Did they look upon your almond eyes and touch your silken hair?
Did they stop to kiss each tiny toe, hear your breath upon the
air?
Did you hear a soft voice comforting, securely in her arms?
The warmth of two souls bonding, Oh, the lure of newborn charms.
Were they charmed by every movement; every yawn and stretch and
pout?
Did they celebrate with handshakes and good spirits all about?
(Or were the tears mistaken, as they fell upon your face?
Their eyes were wells of sorrow? Their heads hung in disgrace?
Did they tremble when they realized the thing that would be
done?
Did they mourn the new day coming, with the rising of the sun?)
Did they place you, oh so tenderly, in the place where you were
found?
Were those blankets wrapped up tightly to deny the cold, hard
ground?
Did she whisper words of comfort with a love that was so deep?
Did she recognize the features of this one she could not keep?
Did you feel the night wind blowing as it carried in the morn?
Did you hear your mother weeping on the day that you were born?
And here across the ocean a mother weeps for you.
How long before she travels `cross that ocean, deep and blue?
How long before she gazes at those little dimpled hands?
How long before she travels to that promised, distant land?
Her heart is filled with gladness. Her dreams are coming true.
The secret thrill of motherhood, across that ocean deep and
blue.
And she'll gaze upon your almond eyes and touch your silken
hair.
She'll stop and kiss each tiny toe….feel your breath upon the
air.
And you'll hear a soft voice comforting; the worlds so insecure.
Two fragile souls are bonding as they hold each other near.
She'll be charmed by every movement; every yawn and stretch and
pout.
And she'll celebrate with handshakes and good spirits all about.
And you'll hear the night wind blowing as she rocks you off to
sleep.
And she'll whisper words of comfort, with a love that is so
deep.
.....And far across the ocean a mother weeps.....
-Mary E. McRae
7-13-04
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