The final countdown!

The time is finally almost here. Time to start counting down the final 10 days until we leave to get our boy. 15 days until we get to see his sweet face. My emotions are all over the place as we get the final preparations in place for this big trip. I am anxious about leaving Reagan and Ben behind, excited to meet Eli and see China, nervous he might really dislike us, happy that the waiting game is almost over and on and on and on...

Here's some details....

We leave Wednesday, August 3rd around noon and head to Beijing, arriving there in Thursday. We will stay there a couple days, get used to China, do some touristy-type stuff. Then we will travel to Zhengzhou (where Eli lives) on Sunday afternoon. We will get our boy on Monday, August 8th. Stay in his province until about Saturday and then will travel to Guangzhou to finalize the US side of things. On Thursday August 18th we will take a van from Guangzhou to Hong Kong and will fly home from there on Friday, August 19th. After a super long flight home we will arrive back in Atlanta around 11:45 pm on the 19th. Whew!  It's going to be quite the adventure!

Travel Approval!

These last few weeks have flown by as we are anxiously getting closer and closer to bringing our little boy home.  Today we got our travel approval!  This is basically the last step before we travel, it is China's way of saying we can come on over and get our boy.  We should have our consulate appointment set by tomorrow and then we can get booking our trip.  We have been a little shocked to see travel prices for August.  Apparently, this is the most expensive time of year to be flying to China.  We will be working over the next few days to pull all these details together! 

As always we would appreciate prayers for the remainder of the travel details to come together and for Eli's transition to our family.  Also, if you feel led to contribute financially to our final travel expenses we would so appreciate that.  We will keep everyone posted as we have more details!