Busy, Busy Day...
Wow! What a Friday!
Finally, we got a confirmed Consulate Appointment (CA) for Wednesday, June 13. We leave Friday, June 1, our "Gotcha" Day is Monday, June 4 and we will be coming home Friday, June 15.
I spent the ENTIRE day trying to get travel arrangements ironed out, working with our agency and our travel agent (who has been awesome so far), Sue Sorrells. We had to finalize our itinerary so that I could send that information along with our hotel and guide requests to the China travel agency. Plus, we were working against the clock regarding the upcoming 3 day weekend. Everything needed to be done yesterday.
It was so surreal to be looking over the details of Anna's itinerary to confirm her plane ticket home. We are so thankful that this time has finally arrived.
As well, our TA was delivered. The FINAL piece of paper. It arrived at our agency on Tuesday, but it was delivered to our house yesterday. This little piece of paper, along with a mountains of other papers will be traveling, very close to my person, with us to China to confirm that we are who we say we are, we have done what we were suppose to do, China has approved us to adopt, that Hai Zhi Yi is our daughter, we have permission from China to take her out of the country and permission from the United States to bring her home. VERY IMPORTANT PAPERS!!
So the next few days, I will be finishing up our needed shopping for travel, getting everything in order for us to be gone for 2 weeks and trying very hard to focus on my boys. We want to spend as much quality time with them as possible before we leave. We probably need it more than they do, as they are pretty excited about a "2 week sleep-over".They will be staying with my mother and my mother-in-law primarily and then my sister and 2 sister-in-laws as back up. Thankfully, they all live close to us, get along, and are willing to help out. They will be staying at home some as well, mainly for Parker's sake. He is finally sleeping in his own bed and I really don't want to get him out of that habit.
Thrilled to be getting ready for travel and sending love to my Anna.
