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Shanghai & Zhouzhuang

As promised, here’s a video of our first few days in China. Due to the size of the file, it’s taken me a few tries over the past couple days to upload it over our slow hotel internet connection. Enjoy!

He’s Here!

Today is one of those momentous days when you think, is it really today? Like a graduation or a wedding, this one day we looked forward to for days and weeks and months, waiting and imagining and planning. And it’s today. This moment . . . we meet Han Kun. After I spent much of […]

Eleventh Hour!

I’m shaking with excitement right now — the bellman just delivered our Notice of Travelling to China for Adoption!! Lily and I had been on the phone and computer for an hour, trying to figure out where the package was. The tracking number wasn’t working, the Purolator number didn’t work in China, I got my […]

Zhouzhuang

Click here for a slideshow of the day’s photos, or here to see all our photos on flickr from the trip so far. Another video will be posted soon.

Grandpa Hugh

It was a shock to get word from my parents that my Grandpa Hugh died on Saturday. He was my mother’s father (in Mandarin, my waigong). He was in his eighties and had been in and out of hospital lately, but still . . . The most upsetting thing for me is that we will […]