Monday, February 16, 2009

Our Amazing Race begins... soon!

Four more sleeps until we fly to China! We fly direct from Toronto to Beijing (a 13 hour flight) on Friday, February 20th. We'll be there for the weekend where we'll meet up with other families who are also adopting through our agency.

Monday morning, our family will fly to Xi'an in Shaanxi. We are the only family from our group travelling to Xi'an. Our guide will meet us at the airport and will accompany us to all adoption related appointments. That afternoon, we'll meet Grace for the first time! Grace's adoption will officially take place on Tuesday, February 24th. We'll travel back to Beijing at the end of that week where we'll complete all the necessary paperwork with the Canadian Embassy. We return home on March 5th, Diane's birthday!

Our visas finally arrived late last week as did our "Permission to Travel". So it's time to starting packing ... This week will fly by!

Here's a picture of Joshua with his countdown chain.

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4 comments:

  1. Dad24treasuresFebruary 18, 2009 at 4:19 AM

    You guys will definitely be in our prayers!!!!! Can't wait to meet baby Grace:)

    Love,
    Paula (& Blair)

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  2. The CarmodysFebruary 18, 2009 at 6:45 AM

    Woo hoo . . . it's so soon now! Can't wait to follow along on your journey Diane (and family)! Praying that all goes well.

    k

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  3. Kevin, Jake and VioletFebruary 18, 2009 at 6:23 PM

    Have a great trip! We had a great time in Xi'an, mainly because we got our son there, but also because there is so much to see and do.

    Can't wait to follow along.

    Kevin and Violet

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  4. Dad24treasuresFebruary 19, 2009 at 5:48 AM

    ONE MORE SLEEP!

    Thinking and praying here ;)

    P

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