Wednesday, July 16th

Well, it was a pretty boring day today, which actually turned out good. Hope had kind of had a hard morning. She woke up at 6am wanting her diaper changed, but then wanted only to go back to sleep which she did until 10:30 AM. When she woke up, she was very crabby and kept looking around for familiar surroundings and when she didn't see any but us, she cried a lot. Nothing terrible, but it's so hard to see a baby this small grieving. I can only imagine being plucked out of the only life you know, thrust into the arms of strangers and know nothing, not even the smells or air temperature is the same. Scary! However, after long nap with daddy, she mellowed out and was her happy self. We did manage to venture out of the hotel to get Hope a pair of shoes, and it was awful. One of the members of our group said it best when she said, "I tend not to go out on days you can SEE the air". Poor David just sweats buckets when his foot his pavement around here. It's hot and it's not the heat, it's the humidity that gets ya. I think Hope kind of liked it though, after all, it's what she knows.

She did continue to show us more and more smiles and now she really loves the millions of kisses she is getting everyday. She's keeping us busy walking the halls with our fingers and is starting to try and get her way, which is good. She is trusting us.

Thank you all for all the sweet words and notes we've been getting, this Blog and our communication is the only outside link we have. Thank God for the internet - and Skype too! It's so cool, if anyone has it and wants to Skype let us know!

Tomorrow we get to go on a city tour and a tour of the embroidery factory which should be pretty neat. It's also our 15th Wedding Anniversary. One we will never forget.