We are so excited to share that we got our travel approval from China! We booked our flights today! We will leave on November 15 and return on December 5. Our "gotcha" day is November 22!!! That is the day we finally get to meet our sweet Sydney May! We will be updating the blog regularly while we are in China with lots of pictures and details of the trip, so check in frequently! Grace and Jared will be staying with Aunt Michele most of the time and with Scott's parents over Thanksgiving. We will be gone for Scott's and Grace's birthdays, so pray for Grace as she will be without mommy and daddy for her 7th birthday. Please keep Scott and I in your prayers for travel safety and to stay healthy during the trip. Also please especially pray for Sydney as she will be experiencing a significant trauma in being removed from everyone and everything she has ever known. Of course, we know that this will be for her long-term benefit, but for the short term, this precious little girl is going to be scared, confused and sad to leave everything familiar to her. The best thing any of you can do for us right now is pray, pray and pray some more! Once we return, after we get Sydney settled for a few weeks, we will have some sort of get together where you all can meet Sydney. We will probably do an "open house" style party where people can come and go, so not too many people are there at once to overwhelm her. Of course we will take our cues from her, so we are not sure yet when she will be ready, but we will keep you all posted! I have listed our itinerary below so you can know where we will be throughout out adventure in China!
- November 15: Drive to Portland
- November 16: Fly out of Portland
- November 17-21: Tour Beijing
- November 21-28: Fuzhou (capital city of Sydney's province)
- November 22: Gotcha Day!
- November 28-December 4: Guangzhou
- December 2: Consulate day
- December 4: Fly home
- December 5: Return to Klamath Falls!
Thank you all for your continued support!
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