Archive for January, 2008

Going a little overboard…

IRS on 25 Jan 2008

So, we have our date.

We have plane tickets! (4 seats over, 5 seats back – OMG, don’t ask how much THAT cost)

So, I’m sure you guys are probably wondering what the plan is. So, I figured I would show you really quick.

Here is the plan:

As you can see, we are flying in to Beijing. We’ll actually be flying in this order:

Nashville–>Detroit
Detroit–>Tokyo
Tokyo–>Beijing

and then on the way home, sort of the same thing – in reverse. Except that we leave from Guangzhou. So, we’ll get to go to Japan AND China! Woooo! Of course, we don’t have enough time to do anything in Japan (other than say we have been there), it’s still kinda cool. And we’re going from the top of China to the bottom in two weeks time.

Anyway, we fly into Beijing and we’ll actually get there at about 9:15PM on Feb 10. We’ll have the days of Feb 11 and 12 to visit the Great Wall as well as Tiananmen Square. Which is probably not enough time to see everything we wanted, but honestly we’re more interested in what happens on Feb 13 when we take the train to go and get our daughter! We’ll be taking the train from Beijing to Hangzhou (which is the central spot for her providence. She’ll be taking a train from Wenzhou to meet us as well. I have to say I’m pretty buzzed about the train. Let me show you why….

http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20040801_train_from_beijing_to_shanghai.htm

Hopefully you are allowed to go to that link. The train is an overnighter, we’ll be getting our own cabin which will allow us to hang out together and enjoy the countryside in comfort. And the best part? It’s about a third of the cost of traveling by plane! Crazy for such a luxurious way to travel.

After we get our little cutey we then stay in Hangzhou and get all of our paper work completed.

On Feb 19 we travel to our last stop in China – Guangzhou. Her physical is on Feb 20 and we’ll be meeting with the Chinese Consulate (when they can fit us in) between Feb 21-22. And then we’ll be heading back home on Feb 23.

Whew!

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And… No.

IRS on 21 Jan 2008

Wow, this roller coaster ride jut won't stop. Seems that we were good to go until we learned that the Chinese Consulate wouldn't make an appointment for us. We were initially told that shouldn't be a big deal, until we learned that they were not taking appointments on the day we thought (they stopped taking them the day prior) and were already completely booked and wouldn't take one more. So, we go from running around here packing and busting our asses to waiting for another whole MONTH. The earliest we can do it now is February 21. So, talk about your big let downs. I just found out, and when Robyn wakes up in the morning she isn't going to be a happy camper. She was giddy with the prospects of us getting our little girl earlier than we had imagined. I too was pretty happy because the short notice would have not allowed me to OCD and obsesses about the travel arrangements and plans and whatnot.

Damnit. 

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All hands on deck!

IRS on 21 Jan 2008

This is not a drill!

This is not a drill! 

We learned not 5 hours ago that we will be leaving to go to China on Friday. That's right people, in 4 days we will all be on a plane heading to China. OMG! Hang on to your hats people, it's going to be interesting! More info when I have time to type it.

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New Year – New Pics!

IRS on 02 Jan 2008

Our adoption agency has managed to secure some new pictures of our little girl for us! They are posted just to the right of this message, or for those who hate that, I will inline them here for your viewing pleasure.

Looks like we are going to be traveling Jan21(ish). We think. Maybe.

Which is about how this whole process has been, nothing definite, everything kind of fast-and-loose, which goes against my over analyzing tendencies. But, I'm going to continue to STFU since I just want to get there, get her and get home. In that order.

I'll post more when we find out more, but for now it's more hurry up and wait.

Oh yeah, and the pics!

She is ALMOST smiling in that last pic. Also, her face has some red candy stuff all over it that they gave her, but, doesn't matter. She's SO beautiful, we cannot wait to get her home.

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