GOTCHA!

We left our hotel at 9 AM. Arrived by 9:15.  Waited for 45 minutes for the girls to arrive. They would not look at us.  They were scared.  They would not come to us when their director told them to.  Maggie was not happy.  Hope was just going with the flow.  Then the director left and the tears came hard.  Both of them cried.  It was hard.  Hope pushed us all away.  Maggie did not want to be touched but tolerated a rub on the shoulder.

We finished paperwork and then left.  We started to see smiles.  They were excited to get in the van.  We got to the hotel and they got big smiles. I do not think they've ever been on an elevator before. They were holding on.  They told Shelley that they have never been in a building so big.  When Shelley told them they would be eating breakfast on the 29th floor their eyes got so big.  Then when she said it moved slowly, the look of fear came over them.

We got in the room. They found the bathroom and they both had to use it.  Then they started looking at everything.  We were here 10 min and then left to get food at the supermarket.  That was scary. Because Hope grabbed everything she saw and threw it in the cart.  Maggie, being the little independent mother she is, was pushing the cart and picking some things she wanted.  They were getting a lot of junk and our guide was not really stopping them. Even when we said 'enough candy".  We checked out and Maggie had to put everything on the belt to ring up. Hope ran to the other line and grabbed more candy. When I took her hand to say "no" she put it under her shirt.  She is very active and going to be hard to take places.  We understand this is all new to her and she does not understand the concept of shopping.  She ran off once and we had to find her.  She was just so excited.

They do not like the clothes we bought.  Maggie said "NO" to the shorts.  Oh great!!!  Hope could care less.  They have looked at everything and gone through our luggage looking at everything.  All the while eating and eating and eating.

We are getting smiles.  We had fun throwing the beach ball around. Lots of giggles.  Maggie has a short attention span.  She is bored I think.  I also think she's tired because she has laid down in her bed but Hope won't lay down so I don't think she will sleep.

Please continue to pray.  I'm exhausted.  We skyped Tiff and my parents and that went well.  They are little parrots.  They repeat everything.  Hopefully they will pick up English easy.

I know so many have been waiting for an update.  We did not get back to the hotel until 1:30 PM.

Here are some photos.  We did not take many.