It
has been 7 wonderful years since we returned from China with AiLi and became a
family. And our bonds with the families we traveled with have grown
stronger and deeper with each passing year. We knew we wanted to visit
China again with our daughters and we are now on the eve of that dream becoming
a reality. Four of the six families in our original CAWLI adoption group
are leaving on Saturday, April 11th for our adventure. The girls are (in
their own words) "super duper excited" about the trip. We have
an ambitious itinerary planned: Beijing, Xi-an, Chengdu, Hefei, Yellow Mountain
and Shanghai as we look to expose the girls to as much of what China has to
offer in a short two week window. It will be fun and educational and in
some respects bittersweet, especially our visit to the orphanage. We
thank our many family and friends who contributed to AiLi's fundraising project
to buy presents for the children still living at the Huainan Social Welfare
Institute. We invite you to follow along on our journey and look forward
to sharing as much of it as possible.
Due to new Chinese laws blocking most popular social media sites we'll be moving our blog to
https://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Montyson/
Hopefully this won't become blocked.
