Heading to Taiwan

(Christine asked her father to create a blog about the trip to bring Maylee to her new home in Canada, so that friends and relatives could easily be updated on this stage of a life-long adventure.)

In the beginning, two and a half years ago, Christine received a phone call asking if she and Rick would be willing to adopt a certain little girl from an orphanage in Taiwan.  After some thoughtful consideration and prayers, they decided that they would do it.

Then, many months of applications, payments, paperwork, calls, emails, inquiries, waiting and waiting (this seems to be what international adoptions are made of).  Finally, the adoption of Maylee is materializing. She is now over three years old.

Christine, Rick and Bo, accompanied by Rick's mother Marj, left Edmonton in the evening on Friday, October 19. Christine's parents, Brenda and David, followed 11 hours later. The role of the grandparents is to help in whatever ways seem best for the adopting family.

Middle of the night, waiting for connecting flight at Vancouver Airport.