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		<title>Too Cute!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Visa done</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now on to Hong Kong and home.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 14 &#8211; Consulate and The River</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was one of the busiest days of our entire trip, and other than actually adopting Sophie, it was the most important. Today was when we got the &#8220;all clear&#8221; to bring Sophie home.  It was the day that we signed the last official piece of paper of our trip.  It was the day where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consulate Complete</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news &#8211; our Consulate appointment went smoothly and the officer confirmed to us that we will get Sophie&#8217;s visa on Friday. We have signed the last &#8220;official&#8221; piece of paper!]]></description>
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		<title>Day 13 &#8211; Hotel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And on the 13th day, they rested. Today, we decided to stay around the hotel and have a restful day.  We walked through the gardens (the hotel&#8217;s name is the Garden Hotel, after all) which were really lovely.  The girls loved watching the koi in the various ponds as they flocked to the nearest human. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 12 &#8211; Shamian Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a number of years, the US Consulate and a number of consulates from other countries were located on Shamian Island, as were two of the best hotels in Guangzhou. Thus, pre-2004 most adoptive parents from the US and Eur0pe spent their last week on the island.  There were a number of shops catering to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 11 &#8211; Tired</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There comes a point in every trip (at least for us) where the thrill of being in a new place begins to get a bit thin.  When the experience of being away from home begins to wear on you.  For us, that point is usually around ten days. Today is day 11 and we&#8217;re just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 10 &#8211; Why we stop at Starbucks every day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money is one of the biggest questions that we get about adoption&#8230; We&#8217;re &#8220;rounding the turn&#8221; and it&#8217;s only one more week until we head home, God willing.  We&#8217;re in Guangzhou which is both warmer and more of an international city &#8211; both of which make it more friendly to us.  It&#8217;s also more expensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical exam all clear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news!  Sophie has passed her medical exam.  She was not too happy about it either as the doctors poked and prodded her. Here are some more pictures. Next step &#8211; on Wednesday we&#8217;re going to turn in our US Visa paperwork and do our swearing in.]]></description>
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		<title>Posting some pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hooray! The internet is better here in Guangzhou &#8211; so here are some links to photo galleries that we&#8217;ve created: Lantern Festival (in Hohhot) Travelling to and arriving in Guangzhou]]></description>
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		<title>Day 9 &#8211; Traveling south</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re heading south to Guangzhou today and Sophie just finished her first plane ride. She took it the way she takes most change &#8211; she watched quietly and kept glancing around to make sure baba or mama was nearby. We&#8217;re back in Beijing for a little while while we transfer planes. Looking forward to warmer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 8 &#8211; Lantern Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we went shopping at the craft factory, joined our guide at his parent&#8217;s house for lunch and went to the city square to see people getting ready for the lantern festival.  If you&#8217;ve ever been to one of those stores that has the fantasy swords for sale, we visited the factory where they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 7 &#8211; Visiting the Orphanage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we got to visit Sophie&#8217;s orphanage.  It was about a two hour ride over the highway that had the famous 9-day long traffic jam further south.  We got to see the beautiful statues and gateways surrounding a city that is striving to be the most inviting in China.  We also got to see stunning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To the museum (with an angry girl)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing constant in this adoption process is change. We had planned to go do some shopping, but that got rescheduled until day after tomorrow.  Instead, we went to the museum &#8211; still a pretty low stress day.  At least that was until mommy took a walk with Sarah and told Sophie to stay with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 6 &#8211; Recuperating</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There comes a point in this sort of trip where you just need a day to recuperate from the stress, when the adrenaline has worn off and you just need to relax.  Today is that day &#8230; hopefully.  The only thing on the agenda for today is a visit to a local handicraft center where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 5 &#8211; Baby Clothes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We ventured out today because Sophie had nothing to wear &#8211; literally. We brought 2T and 3T clothing for her, figuring that one size would fit and that we&#8217;d donate the other to the orphanage.  Our Sophie is smaller than 2T though &#8211; by quite a bit.  So off we went to the local newborn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re done! Now for the rest of the work.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our adoption is done.  Our guide will pick up the paperwork for us this afternoon. Our little Valentine&#8217;s Day gift is ours. Now for the rest of the work.  You see, the rest of the trip is dedicated to getting our new daughter home.  We need her Chinese passport and then a US Visa.  All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Photo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re having mixed results with the internet here, so here&#8217;s a quick family photo.  We&#8217;ll post more when we get a chance to go to a location with a better connection later today. We&#8217;re doing the adoption in an hour or so.  Should be an eventful morning.]]></description>
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		<title>And we have another daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So after this morning&#8217;s surprise announcement, we got settled into the hotel and got a coffee.  Then came the toughest part &#8211; the last hour of the wait. Sure, we had been waiting for a year and more but now we were so close &#8230; and yet not done.  The last two adoptions we did, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 4 Hohhot &#8211; Sophie&#8217;s Coming Early</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were up at 2 AM this morning to catch the first flight to Hohhot. When we got here at 8:30, our guide Rocky told us that we would be getting Sophie today. She&#8217;ll be here at about 11:30 AM (10:30 PM back home). We&#8217;ll finalize the adoption tomorrow on Valentine&#8217;s Day. She was a [...]]]></description>
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