This is Michael holding Nadia just before we left China. Michael is the guide provided by our agency, Great Wall China Adoption. I don’t know what GWCA pays their guides, but it he earned every penny of it. He was invaluable every step of the way. Not only did he get all of us wherever we needed to be at any moment, but he managed all of the many procedures and bureaucracy that we had to go through while there, constantly getting the appropriate documents from us to translate them if necessary and get them where they needed to be…and he even found time to take us on tours, order pizza for families when they wanted it, take me on a funny two-hour adventure to get a Chinese laptop, and a host of other things. We are definitely thankful for his help and don’t know if we could have got through it all without him.
Mike