Continuing the Journey

Feeling Much Better, Thank You!

While nurses are notoriously NOT the best patients, I have been trying to take it easy. The problem is that I know I have to be back on my feet and ready to run in eight days, so I'm pushing myself a bit more than I should probably be doing (bite your tongue, Gina!) in an effort to get my body ready for this China trip. Despite a few setbacks and a possible infected incision, I truly feel like I'm over the hump and heading toward a quick and complete recovery.

We got our final travel arrangements today. We leave next Wednesday at 9AM and will arrive in Beijing on Thursday evening at 10:30PM...after a layover in Seattle, Washington, that is. We will spend a couple of days adjusting to the time difference and touring Beijing, then we'll be headed to Zhengzhou, Henan Province on Sunday, August 2nd. Gotcha Day will be the morning of Monday, August 3rd...which will actually be Sunday night in the U.S. We will then spend the rest of the week in Henan Province, flying to Guangzhou on Friday evening, August 7th.

We will be spending our week in Guangzhou at The White Swan -- the quite famous hotel where most adoptive families stay during this part of the trip. (For Carson's trip, we chose instead to stay at The Victory Hotel where we got a suite for less money than a room at The White Swan. This time, we weren't give a choice.)

We head home Friday morning, August 14th and...after layovers in Tokyo, Japan and Minneapolis, Minnesota and gaining half a day from the time difference...will land in our home state on Friday evening, August 14th, around 8PM.

I will, of course, be blogging daily. If I have trouble blogging from China (which can happen), I will be e-mailing posts to the Megster and she will post them for me...so bear with us. Don't know how much more blogging I'll be doing this week...this surgery has robbed me of what could have been four productive days. So, now we're into planning overdrive.

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