Give me a burger!!!!!

We have reached our hotel and all I can think about it food right now. we ordered room service and now have some time to pull our thoughts together. we flew 13 hours to Tokyo, had a quick layover and flew 4 hours to Hong Kong. we will stay here tonight and catch a 2 hour train ride tomorrow to Guangzou. it's almost midnight and hong kong is all a buzz. so alive tonight. me, on the other hand...i'm exhausted but energized (if that's possible). i've looked at so many faces already and envisioned what our daughter will look like in person. silly, I know, since she's only one year old and she is her own person but I still catch myself staring at a child, or a teenager or even an adult to see how Echo may look with age.

heath and i were laughing and talking about how the introduction will be. will she cry? will she ignore us? will she just think that we are really strange and interesting to look at? or will she look at us as if to say, "where have you people been?! take me home!!!" we had a friend to send an email (which by they way, your emails, letters, phone calls have meant so much. we have a solid support system of family and friends) and in his email he wrote that he was praying for her to recognize us as her mom and dad right away. I'm going to pray for that too. i loved the thought of that.

and then, I'll bet she cries. infants cry right when they are born and meet their parents. newborn babies scream their heads off upon seeing their mom for the first time. sure, the conditions are much different. haaha, but moms don't take it personally when their babies are born and screaming bloody murder. so, I too, will not take it personally if she's freaking out.

okay, i'm so hungry and tired. i'm not even sure my thoughts are making sense. please, someone, give me a burger!