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Game on. We've got a work around in place and the blogging can begin (Thank you Scott Liptak). We arrived today in Zhengzhou and met the other 9 families that will all travel TOGETHER to a local goverment office for the pickup of our respective children, tomorrow. They are all adopting special needs kids which is cool. These people have a heart and passion for kids with physical and mental needs. It's been great getting to know them.

We did a pretty poor job of getting lots of pictures of Shanghai friends so some have been left out. Over the past 2 days, we caught up with our best friends in Shanghai - the Bowmakers, Liptaks, Wongs, Meyers, Lisa Ward, and JCI Colleagues. See below for some of the pics.

Visiting Yu Garden and preparing to eat famous Shanghai dumplings - the Xiao Long Bao. We were hanging with Florence this trip.
Miriam and Asa are Joab/Emily Meyer's kids and good friends of Anna/Elijah. They were a real treat to see again and have grown up a lot. Not sure which impression Asa is doing here, perhaps just "5 year old kid".
Joab and Emily Meyer

Alexander and Elise Bowmaker - friends of Anna/Elijah. Shanghai's 'Pearl Tower' is in the background.

Nathan and Florence Bowmaker, with Chairman Mao Zedong enshrined on your left

Aimee and Emily/Miriam Meyer - in front of the original HSBC building on the Bund
Tim and Theresa Wong - the Wong's referred us to the Colorado-based adoption agency that we are using to adopt Samuel.

Bummed that we don't have pictures of Lisa and the Liptaks. I think we'll need to visit Shanghai again soon!

Tomorrow is the big day! We hope to be able to post pictures and even video of our little boy. Thanks for checking in on us.