Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. -Isaiah 43:5

An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break.
-An Ancient Chinese Belief

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

TRAVEL and CONSULATE APPOINTMENTS!!!!!!!!!

OK, so we haven't posted for a while. There wasn't much to post about until last Friday, and then we didn't know for sure when we could travel. We heard from our agency that we might receive our travel approval from China soon….this week or next week. Well we heard from them on Friday, that we did receive our TRAVEL APPROVAL FROM CHINA!!!!!!

It means that we can travel to China to bring Emma home, and that our agency can request a consulate appointment for us. It also means that we will probably travel to China on July 9th in less than 2 weeks!!!!!! On Tuesday (today) CCAI received our Consulate appointment which is one of the last things we need to do before leaving China. It also confirmed our travel dates of 07/09 – 07/26. Here is our travel itinerary and things we have to do along the way.

  • 07/09 - leave for China
  • 07/10 - Arrive in Beijing
  • 07/11 - Tour Beijing – Great Wall, Tiananmen Square
  • 07/12 - Tour Beijing - Forbidden City, Hutong (old neighborhood) Tour
  • 07/13 - Leave for Lanzhou, Gansu Provence
  • 07/14 - **Gotcha Day** - Receive Emma
  • 07/15 - Make Adoption Final, Apply for Emma's Passport……………..
  • 07/16 - More Paperwork, Free Time, Tours……………
  • 07/17 - Tour Lanzhou……………
  • 07/18 - Hang Out in China…………………
  • 07/19 - Leave for Guangzhou / Shamain Island – Where US Consulate is.
  • 07/20 - More Paperwork, Apply for Emma's Visa……………..
  • 07/24 - Consulate Appointment…………………
  • 07/25 - Consulate Oath………………
  • 07/26 - Leave China for Emma's new HOME……Here we Come USA!!!!!

At this point we will be posting our travel and pictures from our blogsite. We might change to another site and or format that everybody can make comments or ask questions of us from. Also you can e-mail us at ejsteiner@juno.com anytime and we will be checking our e-mail too. Ready or not China, here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK , if somebody can tell me how to post lists like the dates above so that they don't get all run together, let me know!!!!!!!!!!

2 comments:

Paulette said...

I found your blog from the MayLOAers. We are on the exact same path. I too was loged in 6/28/06 and recieved my referral on the same day as you for my little Annalise. She will be 2 on July 24 when we are in GZ just wanted to invite you an Emma to a Birthday Party. We will just miss each other in Beijing look forward to seeing you in GZ.

Anonymous said...

We are so excited for you guys! We'll be checking in everyday to see how things are going. Can't wait to see the pictures of Miss Emma Grace with her Forever Family!

Carrie H. (CCAIWCP)