Official Travel Dates!

On Monday, we received our official travel dates for China and yesterday our international flights were booked! We are really going to China...God is good...ALL THE TIME!

We are now leaving on the morning of Wednesday, March 12th and will return on Friday, March 28th. We weren't able to get a consulate appointment on the 25th, so it is now on the 26th, which pushed our return date out by a day. We also decided we wanted to leave one day earlier than our group's travel day, so that we have an additional day to get adjusted to the 14-hour time difference and to just have some time to relax before all the FUN begins! You can see our travel itinerary posted off to the right side of our blog. I should have a precise in-China itinerary by this Friday or Monday. Now that our international flights have been booked, the Beijing office can take over and schedule all of our in-China flights, hotels, guides, activities, etc. How wonderful to have someone else take care of all of the details for us!

God is always perfect in His timing and I am reminded of this once again as our travel dates to China are going to work out perfectly with our children's Spring Break and for all of the wonderful friends and family who are going to be assisting us with taking care of our children while we are gone! Not only do we have an amazing God who will continue to guide us through the rest of this journey, but we are also blessed to travel with 7 to 8 other adopting couples from around the U.S. and will be with each other on our entire two week trip. About 5 of those couples have children in the same Province as our daughter. It will be wonderful to have others who we can relate to and lean on during this amazing journey!

Stay tuned...only 7 days until we get on that plane!