RETURN OF HAPPY GIRL AND TENG WANG PAVILION

Halainah had a great night of sleep last night, went to sleep about 10 and woke up around 8:30. She is feeling so much better and we have our happy little angel back. She was full of laughs and talked and talked all day long. I am so happy she is feeling better, it really did break our hearts to not be able to comfort her yesterday.

We visited Teng Wang Pavilion today which was so gorgeous. Which is not really a surprise since all of China is breathtaking. There's 89 steps to get to the top and once there you can see all of Nanchang. We watched a little show that had traditional Chinese dance and music. We were all in awe by the beauty of not only the show but the people who were singing and dancing.

Jiu Jiu, me and Halainah took a picture by the brass pig since Halainah is born in the year of the pig. Her daddy and Jiu Jiu are also born in the year of the pig. We had our last dinner as a group this evening and it was really emotional.

Tomorrow Sissy, our guide will be leaving us and taking us to the airport so that we can fly to Guangzhou to get Halainah's Visa. We will receive her passport in the morning. We are excited to be going onto the next stage of our journey but we are very sad at the same time. This is where Halainah was born. This is where Halainah's birth mom placed her in front of the Shangrao Social Welfare Institute of Jiangxi Province in hopes that she would be found and taken care of. I am so thankful to her birth mom for allowing us to be Halainah's parents. I pray that she may somehow know that her daughter is loved more than anything else in the world. I pray that she is at peace.

I will miss Nanchang but I walk away knowing that we truly captured Halainah's province and that we will be able to share all of the memories and pictures with her when she gets older.