Travel Schedule

Okay the schedule is set. The tickets have been purchased and the reservation made. We are ready to go. Now we just have to wait.
Townsend's room is finished and now we are just waiting on a lamp for the side table,  a picture to be hung, and for my mother to finish his duvet for the bed. The packing has begun and is slowly coming together. Every time we think of something we should take we put it in our suitcase. This means we will need to repack but that is okay. All of Townsend's stuff is packed and we have picked out some toys to take for him. We have a beach ball, a coloring book,  bubbles, a couple of books, stuffed monkey (Scottie is taking her pink stuffed monkey we brought for her in China) and a Captain America action figure to play with Scottie's mermaids, Cinderella, and Elsa.

January 4th - leaving for Portland

January 8th - leave for China

January 9th - arrive in Beijing

January 10th - touring  Mutianyu portion of the Great Wall

January 12th - morning fly to Jinan

                     - afternoon Townsend will arrive at our hotel

January 13th - finalizing the adoption on the china side

January 17th - fly to Guangzhou

January 18th - medical

January 21st - consulate appointment (oath  ceremony)

January 23rd - leaving Guangzhou for Seattle via Seoul

January 24th- arriving in Juneau

We have Travel Approval!

TA!!!!!!!
After 20 days of waiting our Travel Approval finally came. Our agency has submitted our requests for consulate appointments so we should know by tomorrow or Wednesday. At that point we will be able to purchase our plane tickets. We are still hoping that we will be arriving to China on the 10th of January, but we will have to waiting to see.  The plan is that Fred, Scottie and I will be traveling to China to get Townsend and Zane and Quade are staying home with Grandma Sherry. She is so sweet to be flying up to hang with the big boys. Being in high school, it makes it very difficult for them to miss school and we will be gone for 2 weeks. They got to go last time so they have had the opportunity to go to China at least once. Someday we will go back to China for a heritage tour and we will all go. It is going to be hard to be away from them for so long and I know there are going to be things I am going to want to share with them, but we will take lots of pictures and Skype with them regularly.  Okay come on consulate appointments!