I JUST MET MY DAUGHTER!! (We made it! What an Adventure!)

She is SO BEAUTIFUL!

Oh. My. Gosh. You would not even believe what we have been through. This may not make sense because i haven't slept but I want to start at the beginning. First Tulsa helped us to miss our flight on Monday morning and we thought we would not even be able to come until this nice Delta couple found us an alternative route to Incheon. God continued to answer prayers the rest of the day. We had to first go to Salt Lake City where we had a 6.5 hour layover. Then, we flew to LAX with a 7 hour layover - flight leaving at 11:30pm. (Mind you this is all after we had gotten up at 3am to make our Tulsa flight.) When we arrived at LAX we wanted to make sure what gate we were leaving from but when we got there Korean Air said Tulsa had booked us on a business class flight and we only paid for economy and they were out of economy seats. We were so upset! After walking back and forth from 2 buildings (domestic/international) a few times we found someone to help us. He got Korean Air to put us on standby for economy seats & if we couldn't get on, he said he could book us on a flight leaving the next day at noon. So we had to wait up until 10:50pm to learn whether we got a seat or not. Well about 9:30 we found out we got 2 standby tickets! yay! But we were not seated together. Luckily there were 2 nice ladies who wanted to sit elsewhere and they traded with us! So we got to sit together! So after 12 hour flight to Incheon it was 4:30am in Korea and our driver would not be picking us up until 8am! We are so unbelievably tired by now. So our driver takes us to ESWS and we were told he was going to tell us when our meeting with our daughter was. Well, he didn't know. He said he would take us downstairs to the office to ask. He showed us our room, we had just enough time to set down our bags and walked back out. When we got to the office the lady in there said it was time to meet with our social worker! AHH! WHAT?!! This never happens. So there we wait - dirty, smelly, and tired. In walks the social worker. She barely speaks any English and tells us we will be meeting our daughter at 11am. It was 9:40am. Again - WHAT?!!! So we asked if we could go to our room to change our clothes and after filling out some paperwork she let us go. We showered and changed and immediately headed back downstairs and into a little room and there was the foster mom holding the little face I have seen only in pictures! I cried. She is SO PRETTY! Her little lip immediately went down and she clung tight to her foster mother. Soon we sat down and she would let me play with her a little with some balls. She loves balls! She didn't like for Clay nor I to touch her though. She loves her foster mother very much. She is going to be so sad when they part. Please pray for her. Then the social worker asked in her broken English "when do you want your baby?" And I said, "NOW." And she laughed. So we will get her on Monday evening before we leave. Oh boy, that will be a rough night. We will also meet Dr. Kim the director of the agency tomorrow. I am nervous about that! Anyway, our social worker then said it was time to go and we came straight up to the "Business Center" - as they call it - to blog!! Enjoy some pictures!