Great Wall

Great Wall

Monday, February 3, 2014

We're Going to China!

Its been a little while since the last post but man has a lot happened!  Its now February 3rd and on February 12th (Bobby's birthday) we will be traveling to China!  Its hard to believe that we actually know the date now and are so close to going.  Ok, so how did we get here.  Well, after we got our Article 5, things started happening quickly.  First, we got our Travel Approval on January 13th.  This is the piece of paper we needed from the Chinese government saying that we are approved to enter the country to adopt.  As soon as we got that, Holt started working on our travel dates.  They were estimating that we could go either Feb 7th or Feb 14th.  We decided that Feb 14th was better so on Jan 16th we got our Consulate Appointment.  This is the date that we will take Mila to the US Consulate in Guangzhou so that she can get her visa to come to the US.  Our consulate appointment date is Feb 26th.  So then we contacted Lotus Travel to have them build our itinerary and to start getting the trip booked.  Here is a picture of the Travel Approval.