Waiting for Departure

So I think we have purchased everything we need to be ready to go to China. The international tickets, the in-country stuff (hotels, airfare, tours, guides, train tickets to Hong Kong), and all of the clothes and stuff we are taking for NaHui have been purchased. The new summer clothes the boys needed have been purchased.  Basically we are ready, just waiting for the school year to be over. The class play was last Thursday and Friday, and it was great. We did Hamlet Thrill-Ma-Geddon (a parody on Hamlet). Zane was Claudius and Quade was Bernardo. Now we just need to go to the community garden, plant stuff for next fall and go to Skagway the following week. All these things are with my class which makes a great but busy end to the school year. I guess it helps make the time fly by and that is good, but sometimes I wish I didn’t have to organize it all. Not to say I am doing it all by myself, Debbie and Alison have been a big part of the planning.

We still have Candied Jalapenos for sales if you have gotten yours yet. They are really wonderful. Just email if you are interested.

I want to take a book to read to NaHui at bed time but I just can’t decide what to take. I don’t have any experience with little girl books yet and I don’t want to take to many books since I have plans of buying a lot of stuff in China. Luggage weight limits and all. So if anyone out there with girls has a suggestion for the perfect book to take as a bedtime story for a little girl that does not understand the language, please let me know. What is your favorite little girl book?

Leaving Juneau May 31^st.  Can’t wait to be on our way and one step closer to our little girl.

Room is Ready!

Na Hui's room is ready for her. Now we just need to get through the rest of the school year and we can go get her.

Airplane Tickets Purchased!!!!!

It is official!!!! We have our consulate appointment and we have purchased our plane tickets. I won't even go into how much plane tickets cost. If we lived in the lower 48 it would have been a third less. We will get NaHui on June 11th and we will be back late on the 22nd.  It really is hard to believe. All is going well with the fundraiser. We have almost sold out the movie and are thinking about having a second showing. If you want Candied Jalapenos, we still have lots of those.

Travel Approval

We received an email today, that a week after our paper work was submitted, we received our travel approval from China. The next step is that our agency requests a consulate point for us at the US consulate in Guangzhou. Hopefully we will have our official travel dates by Monday or Tuesday of next week.

Article 5

I don't know what happened to this post but it disappeared. The post said something about our Article 5 being picked up and then was sent to Beijing to the CCCWA for Travel Approval.

NaHui when she was 4 yrs old.

The Final Push

Last week a couple of Dayna's friends from the neighborhood said they wanted to see the "Little Red Book" and we should show it as a fund raiser.  No this is not the Little Red Book made popular by Mao that has come a live on the screen in all it's splendor, but the one made popular by Lisle Hebert.  Lisle is a guy I used to work with who has been making movies for many years and when he asked if I wanted to be in his next picture I just could not resist. The movie played several weeks ago in town and was received very well. I believe it sold out every showing.  Many people have said they wanted to see it, but were out of town or forgot or what have you.  We spoke with Lisle and he was excited to be able to help us. 

The Little Red Book will be showing at the Gold Town Theatre downtown on Saturday, May 5th at Noon Thirty (12:30pm).  We will have the Candied Jalapenos for sale ($10.00 per pint) and a couple of my pieces of art available in a silent auction.  Admission is by ticket only ($20.00), so make sure you contact Dayna or myself if you are interested in coming to this event.    

We want to thank everyone who has helped in any way.  Some have helped monetarily, while others have helped with words of encouragement from their personal experiences.  We have such a wonderful family and extended family.  Dayna and I truly consider ourselves blessed.

Pepper Prep Pictures

Fred slicing peppers

We started making candied jalapenos at 9 am. This was after cutting the first few pounds. We prepped 71 pounds of peppers.

Cutting complete

Another look at all the peppers. It sure doesn't look like 71 pounds.

We have 191 pints of Candied Jalapenos that will be ready to sell in a couple of weeks.