OUR VISAS ARRIVED MONDAY!

I forgot to mention that when the kids and I rolled into Kennewick Monday night at 8:15 pm that a FED EX envelope was wedged into our apartment door! It had our original passports in them now with Visa stamps to China on them!!! I'm sure glad we live in a really nice & safe apartment community! Now, since our Travel Approval document should be here Monday we will have every legal document we need to enter China and bring our sweet Gracie home!!! All we need now is our Consulate appointment so we can schedule our flights to and from Guangzhou. I got online last night and did a little exploring to see what the going rates are for flights with the tentative dates of leaving July 12th and returning July 24th. Flying economy on the way there we should get tickets for less than $1000 a piece (this is with a 65% adoption rate discount!!!) We are highly considering flying premium economy/business class on the way home because apparently the economy seats on international flights are quite a lot smaller than the US economy seats which are already a pretty tight fit! We feel like we can tough it out on the way there but on the way home with a 15 month old it might be nice to have the extra room. But we aren't sure how much extra that will cost and if it's a lot then we're just going to tough it out on the way home too. Anyway, Scott made it home from camp this afternoon and boy were we all glad to see him!!! My Mom, Angie, Morgan and Emma even got to say hello as they were heading out from spending the week here with me and the kids. We are going to have a BBQ and go swimming down at the pool to celebrate daddy's homecoming!