Monday, February 9, 2009

Final Itinerary

We received our final itinerary last week. So exciting!!! Can't believe we leave in 4 more days! Woo Hoo!
Feb. 12 - leave house at 6 am for our 9 am flight - we fly to minneapolis to Tokyo to Beijing - a VERY long day.....
Feb. 13th - arrive in Beijing at 9:45 pm
Feb. 14th - sight see - Great Wall, Forbidden City, and Tian An Men Square
Feb. 15th - fly out at 7:30 AM for Tai's province - Nanchang, Jiangxi
Feb. 16th - GOTCHA DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feb. 17th - Shopping for Tai and orphanage visit
Feb. 18th - sightseeing at XiangHu Park
Feb. 19th - sightseeing Teng Wang Ge (we have no idea what this entails.....)
Feb. 20th - Pick up Tai's passport
Feb. 21st- fly to Guangzhou our last stop
Feb. 22nd - Sightseeing at Chen Family Temple
Feb. 23rd - Tai's medical check-up and visa picture
Feb. 24th - Free Day
Feb. 25th - American Consulate Interview - this is where we promise to love Tai forever and ever and to never abandon him - he becomes a US citizen when we hit US soil in Detroit
Feb. 26th - leave for home sweet home! We fly from Guangzhou to Tokyo to Detroit to Kansas City

Jason and I are having so much fun preparing for Tai! Today we finished all the babyproofing and started some packing. The next Sunday morning we spend in this house we will have our lil guy with us. Can't even wait for that!!!! Our hearts are filled with so much joy right now, we can't even believe how lucky we are to be going on this journey. We are so blessed!

2 comments:

Andy said...

Jason and Heidi-

Best of luck on your trip. We hope all goes well and look forward to meeting up with you guys once we all return!!

-Andy and Susie Loehr

Anonymous said...

Safe travels! I'm so excited for you and look forward to reading all about it through your blog! Tai's room looks awesome!!
Sincerely,
Tammy Frank