Gotcha Day
It is typical for families who adopt girls from China to refer to the day they met their daughters as 'Gotcha Day.' I don't know how to feel about the term - it always makes me
think of that movie ('Gotcha') where the kid from 'Revenge of the Nerds' was a college student and expert paint-ball player (?) but the dirty Russians thought he was a spy and he had to get back to the US with the secret microfiche in order to prevent us from losing the Cold War and having to speak Russian and eat Borscht. Or something like that.
Anyway, I really don't want my girlies to have anything to do with the kid from 'Revenge of the Nerds' (he is now an old bald guy, like me) who also played 'Goose' in 'Top Gun', but I guess we still have to call it 'Gotcha Day' because, well, that's what they call it and no well-reasoned Anthony Edwards-related discussion can change that.
We are even extra lucky because our 'Gotcha Day' was June 18th, which is also the girlies birthday. So our friends Brian and Liz, who were with us in China when we all met our new daughters, decided to come to NY to celebrate the day with us. They have some friends (Anne and Michael) who live in Tribeca in a most amazing apartment, and so we spent the day together at their apartment celebrating Sally and Amelia's birthday and the day we all met our daughters. It was quite swell.
think of that movie ('Gotcha') where the kid from 'Revenge of the Nerds' was a college student and expert paint-ball player (?) but the dirty Russians thought he was a spy and he had to get back to the US with the secret microfiche in order to prevent us from losing the Cold War and having to speak Russian and eat Borscht. Or something like that.Anyway, I really don't want my girlies to have anything to do with the kid from 'Revenge of the Nerds' (he is now an old bald guy, like me) who also played 'Goose' in 'Top Gun', but I guess we still have to call it 'Gotcha Day' because, well, that's what they call it and no well-reasoned Anthony Edwards-related discussion can change that.
We are even extra lucky because our 'Gotcha Day' was June 18th, which is also the girlies birthday. So our friends Brian and Liz, who were with us in China when we all met our new daughters, decided to come to NY to celebrate the day with us. They have some friends (Anne and Michael) who live in Tribeca in a most amazing apartment, and so we spent the day together at their apartment celebrating Sally and Amelia's birthday and the day we all met our daughters. It was quite swell.
Here are some photos:
Kim and Liz, hugging:
Sally, being cute
The girlies, sitting on the stairs
Amelia, playing with a big bubble making thingy
All of the kids dressed in their Chinese dresses - very cute
And now for one and only one enjoyable video:
