Travel

Well, we got our "inside China" travel itinerary today. It looks like we have several days of paperwork activities (which we expected). But the do have a couple of tours or sightseeing trips set up for us. In Beijing we will see TianAnMen Square, Forbidden City, and the Great Wall. While in Guangzhou we will see Yuexiu Park, Chen Clan Temple, and the Guangzhou Zoo. We also have a couple of free days scheduled (and I'm sure some of the paperwork days will have free time) - can you say shopping on those days. :) That's my kind of free day. The boys just groaned when I said that. I'm sure they will change their mind when they see all the cool stuff they can bring home. Monday, March 8th is Gotcha Day (for those not in the adoption world that is the day we will get little Paige). It doesn't look like we will get to go to the orphanage. The itinerary says we will go to the Guangdong Adoption Center. Too bad, I was really hoping we'd get to see the place that Paige called home for the last 9 months. The trip to the Guangzhou Zoo is on Mike's birthday, March 12th. Not a bad way to spend your birthday, huh?

Lots of the packing is done. I have clothes laid out to pack (don't want them in the suitcase a week early getting wrinkled). Everything but clothes and toiletries is already packed in the suitcases. So next week it is just a matter of folding the clothes are putting them in the suitcases.

It is really getting close now! By this time next week we will be on our way and a week from Monday we will have Paige!