The first good news we received this morning was that my great friend, Jess, had her baby boy Ezra early this morning!! Congratulations Abe, Jess, Mal, & Took! And can't wait to meet & smooch you little Ezra! A few minutes later we got a call from our adoption agency................... and our Travel Approval document finally arrived and they had already been able to schedule us a July 23rd Consulate appointment!!! Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! So, I've already booked our travel to China and here is our itinerary:
Wednesday, July 11th head to Boise in the afternoon and get the kids settled
Thursday, July 12th:
Depart Boise airport at 11:40am & Arrive Portland at 12:00pm
Depart Portland at 2:40pm & Arrive in Tokyo at 5:00pm (which will be Friday July 13)
Depart Tokyo at 6:50pm and arrive in Guangzhou, China at 10:35 pm on Friday July 13th
*We will stay in an airport hotel since we arrive so late.
Saturday, July 14th:
Depart Guangzhou at 8:05am and arrive in Nanchang at 9:15am
*we will check into the Gloria Plaza Hotel and probably spend most of the day getting settled and taking a nap!
Sunday, July 15th:
Sometime in the afternoon, we will probably find out on that morning, we will have our precious Gracie place in our arms!!! Keep in mind that since China is 16 hours ahead of Spokane and 15 hours ahead of Boise that it will actually still be Saturday, July 14th over here when we get her. Hypothetically, if we get her at 3pm on Sunday in China it will be 11pm Saturday night in Spokane and midnight in Boise. So, when you wake up Sunday morning you will definitely want to check our blog to see if we've had a chance to post pictures and video of our "gotcha" day. We will have some down time for sightseeing and they schedule a few tours for us but we will also have official adoption work to do while we are there too. All of that is arranged for us and once we get there our guide take us exactly where we need to be the entire time. Which sounds great to us!
We will leave Nanchang on Friday, July 20th and fly to Guangzhou where we will be staying at the White Swan Hotel. We will have a different guide here and he also organizes where we need to be and tells us just what to do!
Monday, July 23rd is our Consulate Appointment
Tuesday, July 24th is our swearing-in and Gracie will become a US citizen!
Wednesday, July 25th we head home!
Depart Guangzhou at 8:20am
Arrive Tokyo at 2pm
Depart Tokyo at 3:25 pm
Arrive Portland at 8:30 am
Depart Portland at 11:50am
Arrive Boise at 2:05pm on Wednesday, July 25th!!! (we get to travel back in time!)
The kids and I are tentatively planning on staying until Saturday, July 28th because I think Scott is going to head over to Creation (at the gorge in Washington) early Thursday morning.
Happy birthday to my neice Bailey Grace today too!!! We love you sweetie!
Gracie
This is her referal picture and only 1 of 3 pictures that we have.
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Wow! It is so fun to see that we will get to be together through much of our trip. It sounds like our going home schedule is much the same.
You sure have a lot of family things going on, on your birthday!
Happy Birthday again my friend.
See you in China!!!
Melody
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