Confirmed Travel Plans

Wed, May 9- Leave the US
Thur, May 10- Arrive in Beijing
Fri, May 11- Sightseeing in Beijing (Temple of Heaven, Lunch at Dai Jia Cun Restaurant, Hutong Tour and Chinese Acrobat Show)
Sat, May 12- Childrens Hope International Orientation & Sightseeing in Beijing (TianAnMen Square , Forbidden City , & the Great Wall).
Sun, May 13- Fly to Changsha, Hunan Province
Mon, May 14-GOTCHA DAY!!! (Scott's Birthday & it will still be Mother's day back home with the time change).
Tues, May 15-Adoption procedures
Wed, May 16- Sightseeing: A kindergarten and YuLu Academy
Thurs, May 17- Sightseeing: Hunan Provincial Museum
Fri, May 18-Official paperwork returned
Sat, May 19- Fly to Guangzhou
Sun, May 20- Free day
Mon, May 21- Medical exam
Tues, May 22- Free day
Wed, May 23- American consulate appointment; Farewell dinner
Thurs, May 24- Go to American consulate to take oath and get visa
Fri, May 25- Return home.

Look at our Surprise-New Pictures!

We have Travel Approval!

Our agency received our travel approval today and is requesting a U.S. consulate appointment for us as I write. We should be leaving Wed. May 9. We are very excited, but have lots to do to get ready! We will update our final travel itinerary probably at the end of the week.

Yong Lan Fei

No News

We are still waiting for our final travel approval to arrive from China. Our agency would like us to be apart of the May 10 travel group, but we need this final approval to schedule a U.S. consulate appointment before we will be allowed to leave China with our daughter. Due to Chinese labor day all government offices will be closed the first week of May. Thus, the rush to get travel approval. Please pray that it comes on Monday or Tuesday. We really want to be apart of this May 10 group. We are so anxious to meet our daughter and can not imagine a more special Mothers Day gift for me and birthday gift for Scott!

Tenative Travel Dates

We signed the seeking confirmation letter on our fourteenth wedding anniversary 4/3/07. I just received word that the letter was sent back to China this afternoon 4/4/07. If we receive travel approval in the next 2-3 weeks, we may be able to travel on May 10. This would mean our "gotcha day" could be Sunday, May 13 (Mother's Day) or May 14 (Scott's Birthday). We are making tenative travel plans and are praying all works out!

We got seeking confirmation letter!

We are so excited! We got the call this morning from our agency that they received our seeking confirmation letter today. This is wonderful news and means that we have been approved by China to adopt Yong Lan Fei. They send this letter seeking confirmation to us to make sure we still want to adopt this child, we will both sign the form and it will be sent back to China. Then we are officially waiting for travel approval, which typically comes 2-4 weeks later. We are hoping to travel in May, which now seems possible. We're coming Marygrace!!!