It's the first time in five years Chloe had been with the girls since China, but you certainly couldn't tell. It was, as if, they had seen and been with each other every day since that morning we all departed from Guangzhou. I remember vividly the airport that morning. All ten families scrambling around carrying these little Chinese girls through the airport, loading different flights, trying to manage lots of luggage with only two translators. My nerves were, I can assure you, on edge.
This weekend had me feeling somewhat the same as that day five years ago, minus the nerves. It made me feel like I had just been part of something unusually spectacular. Something miraculous. To see all those precious girls together again was simply priceless!
It was a beautiful weekend in a beautiful location. Everywhere you turned you couldn't help but be in awe of God's majesty.
We stayed at Mitchell's Lodge and Cottages. The girls fished in the little lake on the property and caught, I think, every fish in it!
We roasted marshmallows, grilled out, walked around town and saw many beautiful waterfalls.
Dry Falls...
Her daddy tried to persuade her to touch the fish....(it didn't work!)
Chloe's favorite thing...Gem mining
Hopefully we'll be able to do this again next year. We discussed the hope that maybe if we do this every year, then perhaps the girls will continue on even when they are grown.
"Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and the great King above all Gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the hills are His also." Psalm 95:1-4
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