Last Night in China - Goodbye China....

Well this will be our last post before we get back home to Canada and the last time we will be online until Friday morning from home!!! This morning we toured Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, after some lunch we went shopping at the Silk Market 5floors of shopping. (Heh Bryan wouldn`t the girls love us after a week here! Never mind Dick`s Sporting Goods in Maine). Here a few pics that we took today.

Tracy Madi and I in the square with the countdown to the 2008 Olympics being held here in Beijing


A view of the square


The Forbidden City


A courtyard within the Forbidden City


.....Tonight we celebrated our stay in China and bid our farewells. I think I said it once before in a previous post but this is a bitter sweet farewell. First of all it is through this journey that Tracy and I have become parents to our precious daughter Madison. We have also made friends of which we shared very profound moments - becoming parents through adoption here in China. We were speaking with another couple today and we both felt the same way, that we share something very special between us, something that adoptive parents can only trully understand....haven`t quite been able to put words to paper on it but anyone that has been through this exeprience probably knows what I am talking about. The bitter part of this is that there is a little tug at our hearts that says we are taking Madi from her homeland and this does bring sadness to our hearts but we will give her what she would never find here being left as an orphan....Love, a Home, a Mommy and Daddy, and the support of our own friends and family back in Canada....ok now that I have stopped being such a mush ball I`ll be able to continue. Here a few pics of the families that travelled with us.







So I guess this is it China, goodbye for now, we will return someday with Madi to show her where she comes from this amazing country called China.......

See you all tomorrow night! 10PM at the Moncton Airport.

Chris, Tracy, and Madison