Travel Dates!!!

We bought our plane tickets!!! Colleen and Aileen will be leaving Madison at 8:56 am on Friday, June 16th. We'll arrive in Chicago at 9:45 am, check in through Customs, and leave for Hong Kong at 12:23 pm. It's a non-stop flight (it's about 15 hour in the air) but with the 13 hour time difference, we'll arrive in Hong Kong at 4:50 pm on Saturday June 17th. So it will be dinner time there, but 3:50 am for us!

On June 18th we'll travel to Kunming, Yunnan, where Josie lives. We don't know when we'll get her but probably on the 18th or 19th. After several days there, we'll travel to Guanzhou where the U.S. Embassy is located. On June 27th we have our Visa Appointment, where we apply for a Visa to take Josie out of the country. It will be issued the next day and we'll travel back to Hong Kong. We'll leave Hong Kong at 12:45 pm on June 30th, flying nonstop to Chicago to arrive at 2:22 pm. After going through Customs, we'll fly to Madison from 4:55 - 5:48 pm.

Jim will be the only one to meet us at the airport, as this will be his first time meeting Josie. On Sunday July 2 we are welcoming our siblings and their children to visit with Josie (and our parents of course.) Then we won't be having any visitors for several weeks. It's very important for Josie to get used to us and her new environment. As a child that lived in an institution, she will have a difficult time understanding that daddy and mommy will always be here, and that we will always be the ones to take care of her. She does not need the confusion of having a lot of people around.

Less than three weeks til we travel, and five weeks until we're a new family!