We're ready

Ok, Joe and I were counting the days until we can go home last night.
We're ready to go but still have many days yet before that long, long
day of flying. As one person put it, starting your family in a hotel
room is hard, adding to your family is just as hard! The rest of our
travel group arrived yesterday but we haven't seen any of them. We are
excited to see how everyone else is doing and to see all the new
family members. We went to a shopping mall last night, wow! If you
think Kenwood is busy at Christmas you should see the place we went to
on a regular Friday night. We also ate at McDonald's and Lily's
friend, Zoe had ice for the first time. It was fun to watch, she loved
the ice:) We had our first bath in the tub last night and it went
great. I know some of you are thinking 'how could we wait that long?'
but it's about trust. She had plenty of washings with a cloth but
putting a kid in a tub that might have never seen one is scary for
them. She played and played with the old yogurt containers, pouring
them over and over. She even turned the water on to fill up her
containers. So we think this wasn't the first bath tub experience. A
free day today so we think we will be trying the pool later this
afternoon. Here's a pic of the mall.