We saw them–1,000 amazing life-plus sized clay warriors which are quite literally the universe’s hardest puzzles.
We conquered those 3 pits of warriors, learning all about them from our flag carrying tour guide.
This lady clearly came ready to conquer them as well.
(that’s a plush tiger head backpack with matching animal print jumpsuit in case you were wondering.)
We then started into what I had told the team would be the hardest part of this whole trip (tied with driving away from the orphanage on the last day)–the van ride into the city where we are serving. We’ve always had one van. That is, one maybe 18-passenger van. For 18 people total counting the staff on board. And, an exorbitant amount of luggage. On previous trips, some team members were left to stand for the entire 3 hour drive while others sat on luggage in the aisles.
But, we all witnessed a China miracle today.
We were met on the highway to move from our charter bus to the orphanage-owned vehicle by not only the orphanage van BUT they had rented a second vehicle for our luggage.
Could you hear me singing from the other side of the world when I saw those two vans?
The energy built in that van full of people and not a mound of luggage and people as we made the last leg of our journey and entered into the city that we came here to serve in. By dinner…at this well-named local fave….
Every single one of them seemed abuzz knowing that tomorrow, we’re going into the orphanage.
As I go to sleep tonight with cars beeping outside and the glow of neon lights reflecting onto the wallpaper in my little room, I’m looking at this pile of goodness that somehow made it over here by another miracle. This isn’t even all of it.
Ready or not, here we go.