Hello, gang. Scott here. It is 8:55 p.m. Nanchang time and Renee's stressed and asleep. We are experiencing some serious audio-visual problems. Most seriously, our faithful camera, which has been with us for several years, decided to break today of all days, 18 hours before we finally receive our daughter in our arms. We tried to buy a new digital camera at the local Wal Mart, but of the thousands (literally) of people there, zero of them spoke English. We were able to decide what camera we wanted, but apparently our credit cards don't work in China. Or so we think. We couldn't really tell, since the checkout lady tried to run our card but gave it back to us without a receipt or a camera. We think this means our credit card didn't work.

Also, internet connectivity here is spotty at best. We are unable to download pictures to the blog at this point, even with an operational camera. We also cannot depend on the availability of this main blog page to conduct posts.

The good news, however, is that (a) we'll probably be able to have someone in our group take pictures of us as we get Ivie, (b) we have a functional cam corder to record the event, (c) we have two excellent guides who may be able to help solve our camera problem tomorrow locally, and (d) after two long years of waiting, thinking that the day would never come, having to rely only on the 5 pictures we've received of our daughter, we will have her placed in our arms tomorrow, 11:00 a.m. Nanchang time Monday, or roughly 10:00 p.m. your time Sunday night. We couldn't be more excited, well, that is to say, unless we had a functional camera.

To our family and friends, we love and miss you all. Be well and, if it's not too much trouble, think happy thoughts for us.