Travel Plans at last!

I hope Melissa doesn't mind that I put our story down in our first post. I agree with most of what she said. :) We have been anxiously waiting since early August 2011 when we signed a Letter of Acceptance and sent it to the Chinese government to hear when we could go get our Jade. We had a number of things to renew as part of our adoption requirements, but Melissa is tenacious about getting this stuff all done. Good thing, too. We have been waiting and thought we might travel at the end of December/early January, but as these things often do, we had to wait longer than expected. We finally received official word on March 5th that we would be leaving on March 22nd and meet with our group on March 23rd in Beijing. As far as we can tell, there will be about 10 families going with us and some of them will be going with us to Zhengzhou to meet their children as well.

We will be in China about 13 days and traveling one day on each end of the trip; so will be gone just over two weeks. We are excited about learning more about the culture and know we are going to have some interesting and exciting experiences as we go through this adoption process. Best of all, we are bringing home a beautiful little girl that we will cherish and will make our little family complete.