This travel packet is AWESOME! I was SOOOO impressed... It is exactly how I would have put one together... it is even pink! haha! It made the girls a little more of a reality!! Wow!
We also received our travel itinerary! So exciting! We are actually going to get Maria on the 17th instead of the 18th! She will get to go to the Great Wall with us!!! Which means i better try to pack in a snow suit! haha! If any one knows anything about the countries over there you know that they REQUIRE that you have your baby bundled up properly!! And that means a snowsuit in 70 degree weather! The day we took Alex out of the babyhouse for good it had to be about 70 and he had to have a snow coat, we ended up waiting so long for our interpreter that he had a heat rash by the time we returned to the apartment! humm... i will have to see what i have and what is the easiest to smash into nothing! haha!
Also I learned today the Love Without Boundaries is looking for families that can take over cleft bottles to the orphanages, so if anyone is going in the not too distant future, you might want to contact them and see if you can help!
Wow... the last couple of days have been SUPER-PRODUCTIVE!!! My garage is now usable, to my standards.Tomorrow i will have a picture of the clean garage. Alex took this picture the other day, i was just getting the picture of the pink folder and saw this one!! My little photographer. See all the leaves blown in!? haha! My truck is supposed to be parked in there... but it is too close for comfort to me so i just park outside! Jerry parks it inside when he is home! and we all squeeze by and keep telling the boys not to open the doors very wide! ha! Well... it is in tonight and the leaves are gone!
Tons of weird things are checked off the "List." There's still tons of little things to do... and more pop up all the time, but i am sure we will make it! haha! Tomorrow is my errand day. Hoping to be home by early afternoon... maybe sooner. I am hoping tomorrow i can post pictures of the Girls' finished room... I touched up paint today and tomorrow i will hang those pictures back up and put their names above their beds.
Does anyone have any experience with Hotspot Shield? Its supposed to make your computer anonymous and so can not track where you are going online... like Blogger from China!! Anyone know if it works? We now have skype up and going... i just need to try a practice call or two...
A family waiting to bring home a young girl in Tianjin, is fund raising... on her site i found a post about Old Navy... she has a link to a 30% off coupon and they donate 5% to a charity!! Well... wouldn't you know it... i have a $60 gift card sitting in my wallet! Make sure you visit her blog if you need a coupon! You could enter her raffle for a $100 gift card to Best Buy, too!
In one week we will be a family of 5!!! Five days later a family of 6!!! Woohoo!!!
I know most of you don't care too much about the itinerary, but any parents who are going to our provinces or anyone getting two children might like to see a sample itinerary... so i am going to post it below. The big miracle of it is, that our trip is fairly inexpensive!!! Thank You GOD!!! I was praying for the agent to find very good prices our whole Travel Itinerary is about 8600 dollars. Total. That is international flights, hotels, trains. Meals, tips, drivers, and shopping will be more, but that is not bad!! I am so happy! Its at least 2000 less than i planned!!! Yay!!!
Nov 14: SUNDAY
Fly!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nov 15: MONDAY Wangfujing Grand Hotel Beijing – Arrive Beijing at 11:30pm. Will be met by local guide at the
airport. Stay at Wangfujing Grand hotel.
Nov 16: TUESDAY Wangfujing Grand Hotel Beijing - Tour of TianAnMen Square, Forbidden City and
Olympic Green Park. (Lunch included)
Nov 17: WEDNESDAY Golden Ocean Hotel Beijing – Train to Tianjin. Tianjin – Receive your daughter in the later morning.Nov 18: THURSDAY Wangfujing Grand Hotel Tianjin – Interview with CAB have adoption registration done.
Interview with Justice Dept. have notary done.
Apply your daughter’s passport. Train back to Beijing.
Nov 19: FRIDAY Wangfujing Grand Hotel Beijing - Tour of Great Wall. (Lunch included)
Nov 20: SATURDAY Dolton Hotel
Beijing – Train Z17(6:10pm – 7:15am) to Changsha.
Nov 21: SUNDAY Dolton Hotel
Changsha – Will be met by local guide at the Train Station.
Nov 22: MONDAY Dolton Hotel
Changsha – Receive your daughter at the CAB office in the morning.
Shopping for any needs.
Nov 23: TUESDAY Dolton Hotel
Changsha - Interview with CAB have adoption registration done.
Interview with Justice Dept. Have notary done.
Apply for your daughter’s passport.
Nov 24: WEDNESDAY Dolton Hotel
Changsha – Tour the Martyres Park and Hunan Embroidery Institute.
Nov 25: THURSDAY - ThanksGiving!! Dolton Hotel
Changsha – City tour and pick up the Notary Documents. Maybe visit Hengyang.
Nov 26: FRIDAY White Swan Hotel
Changsha – Pick up your daughter’s passport and flight (7:50 – 9:00pm)
to Guangzhou.
Guangzhou – Will be met by local guide at the airport.
Nov 27: SATURDAY White Swan Hotel
Guangzhou – Child’s medical check up, TB test, picture taken and
fill out paperwork.
Nov 28: SUNDAY White Swan Hotel
Guangzhou – City tour.
Nov 29: MONDAY White Swan Hotel
Guangzhou – Pick up the TB and medical test.
Nov 30: TUESDAY White Swan Hotel
Guangzhou - Interview with U. S. Consulate at 9:00am.
Dec 01: WEDNESDAY White Swan Hotel Guangzhou – Take the oath.
Dec 02: THURSDAY Ramada Pudong Airport Hotel Guangzhou – Pick up your daughter’s visa. Flight (7:00 – 9:20pm) to Shanghai.
Shanghai – Will be met by local guide/driver and stay at the Ramada Hotel.
Dec 03: FRIDAY
Take hotel shuttle bus to airport. Head HOME with our new DAUGHTERS!!!
3 comments:
Wow wow wow - it's all getting so close and so real!
How exciting to have your itinerary! Wow! You guys will be busy! I hope you have time to blog, and I want to hear how the Tianjin hotel is! :0)
i'm going to double or maybe even triple that wow wow wow!! That's just too too exciting. I'm so looking forward to following you and thank you for getting that bigger suit case that i'm going to hide in...lol.
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