In China!

We have been on quite a trip over the last couple of weeks.  From the time that we received the phone call telling us about Hope to now has been a whirlwind.  We had to get more paperwork done, figure out travel arrangements, and prepare ourselves for the biggest and best change in our lives!

 

We received our approval to book travel arrangements on November 22.  We needed to arrive in Beijing China on December 1st.  That gave one week to get everything booked, packed and ready to go.  We booked our tickets starting out at Billings going through Salt Lake City, then Seattle and finally to Beijing.  Fortunately going home we have only one connection going from Beijing to Seattle then back to Billings.  But that's getting ahead of where we are now.

 

Since being in China we have had an awesome experience already.  Our CCAI rep met us at the airport and has been our guide and helper.  We have met up with others from our agency that are here to bring their child home at this time as well.  We have families from accross the US here with us and it has been great to spend time with them and share with them the experiences together.  The first couple of days were meant to help us rest from the travel and also to see some of China.  We have toured Tienamman Square, the Forbidden City, a older Chinese neighborhood, the Great Wall, and the Olympic venues in Beijing.

 

Today we will travel by ourselves to the provinence of Hunan where we will meet our local rep from CCAI.  She will be we with through the next part of the journey that we will provide updates to when we get there!