Thursday, March 20, 2008

The Itinerary arrives!

This afternoon I got the email I had been waiting for, our itinerary.
March 27th arrive in Beijing, stay at Wangfujing hotel over looking forbidden city
March 28- Temple of heaven in the morning, lunch at Dai Jia Cun rst. and Hutong tour and Chinese acrobat show in the afternoon.
March 29-Meet and tour with Meng Lei and Sun Li, two music professors from Qing Dao
March 30-Fly to Urumqi, stay at the five star hotel Hoi Tak
March 31-Meet LUKE in the morning, adoption done in the afternoon
April 1-Free day
April 2-sightseeing Museum
April 3-sightseeing, local market
April 4-Get our papers back
April 5-Fly to Guangzhou and stay at the White Swan hotel
April 6-free day(meaning shopping of course)
April 7-Medical exam for Luke (Lily will be happy it is not for her)
April 8-Consulate appt-farewell dinner
April 9-go to consulate in the morning, get visa in the afternoon
April 10-Long journey home!
Our guide for the journey is Children's Hope international employee Elsie.
There will be our family and three others traveling to each of the three cities together. There are 24 families in all but everyone splits up and goes to the province where their child is waiting after Beijing and then we all meet up again in GZ. Our four families (the female half anyway) have been emailing like crazy the past few days comparing information.
ok, now I just have to get to feeling better so I can get it all done. John will do his packing the morning we get ready to leave, he is only responsible for himself. I have been the hunter and gatherer for the trip, buying all those cute little bottles of this and that and picking out gifts for guides and officials and aunties.
One more day of work to get through. It is going quickly.

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