Last full day in Harbin!

It's scary the pattern we're getting into already w/this little man! Everybody's up around 6-6:30 (however, we use that term very loosely as I've been up several hours before as has Denise), play a little bit, Denise and I get cleaned up. No sense cleaning up Nate since he tends to be a little messy after breakfast.

After breakfast we come back to the room and kind of "wait" until he gets to go potty because, frankly, it is a real treasure hunt trying to find bathrooms around here!

Guess who's not allowed to dress the kid?

Once we get ready it's down to the hotel lobby to hook up w/Katherine and our driver for today's excursion to Siberian Tiger World, or something of that affect.

Somebody's getting tired of all this running around!

Not sure this was Nate's cup of tea. It's kind of like the Wildlife Safari in Sandusky where you travel in a van and drive through the tigers habitat. He was pretty scared when they were near by, but held his own!

"Look mama, I spy w/my little eye..."

So after our daily excursion, it's back to the hotel for lunch. Actually, Denise had packed lunch for us since we weren't sure how long we would be out to the tiger exhibit. After lunch comes nap time and this is where Denise and I are able to recharge a bit. She writes in the journal she is keeping on our travels and I update the blog. We let him sleep till about 4, play some, have dinner, maybe walk around (we've been doing laps on our floor of the hotel. Then it's time to unwind and head to bed around 8. Sometimes it feels like that span from 4-8 lasts for a day (isn't it bedtime, yet?). I'm not sure how much I'll be able to enter from tomorrow (Friday) as we are heading down to Guangzhou @11:30 (4-5 hour flight, ugh) for all our legal stuff! We cannot thank you all enough for your thoughts and prayers during our travel. It's been everything rolled into one: nervous, exciting, trying, tiring, exhilarating, frustrating, uneasy, unsure, enlightening. The change that has taken place in my wife is amazing. Almost overnight she has transformed into a mother. She is handling Nate so well w/patience, love, and understanding. We all know this, right?

It's not always sunshine and rainbows :-(