This is an email from Tracy, dated 3-6-10 from Tai Yuan:

It's a good news bad news day. Good news we are here and we had a great time in Beijing. Bad news we won't get Ryan until Tuesday. Monday is a legal holiday here. So Tuesday will be the day. We are really tired. Avalon can't seem to get her time clock moved so she is waking up every morning at 3:30. ugh... so she literally passes out about 2-3 in the afternoon, and she is out. Really hard to wake up and not pretty when she finally does. Tai Yuan is just as smelly and smoggy as we expected. We have been here 2 hours and my throat is already sore.

Looks like we will get Ryan tuesday am and then drive in a big bus with 5 other internationally adopting families(other agencies) to Datong to get some paperwork done there and we think (still not sure on this) that we are spending the night there. So we will probably figure that out as we get closer.

So now we have 2 and a half days in Tai Yuan to spend more time with Avalon and hopefully get her on the right time zone!!

Will try to send more pix as I can.

Tracy Fred and Avalon

Henrietta says "Welcome!"

As soon as I figure out how to import text we will be in business. Maybe I need to contemplate the matter for a while, or maybe I just need dark chocolate!