January 22 -- Elizabeth's Birthday!!!

Today we celebrated Elizabeth’s birthday! The day started with her getting to have a waffle at breakfast. She absolutely loved it! We then went off to get tickets to the Water Puppet Theater show which we will see tomorrow. Came back for her nap, then lunch, than met our Canadian friends down in the lobby to hang out and chat. Mr. Haong came by with all of our final paperwork so we are good to go on Saturday. Elizabeth then had her afternoon nap and then we had dinner in the Vietnamese restaurant in the Hilton with the Canadians. We had ordered a cake at the bakery in the hotel and they presented it to Elizabeth complete with candle for our dessert. It was a beautiful cake, white chocolate with raspberry filling and Elizabeth even had a few bites! Oh boy did she love it!

Tomorrow we finish up our packing, go to the water show and then have our final dinner in Hanoi. Two of our Canadian friends leave tomorrow night and we wish them a safe trip. They were wonderful to be with and we will miss their company greatly. One thing that has been cool these past few days is noticing the amount of families that are here who are adopting. A whole bunch are staying at the Hilton with us, while others are staying at the Army Hotel or the Somerset Grand. We seem to keep bumping into each other. We always compare stories and have found that for the most part, all of the babies have been well taken care of here. A few did not receive as good treatment as Elizabeth which makes us count our blessings even more that we were so fortunate to get our little girl in good health.

We can’t wait to come home!!!!!