We have dates and plane tickets!

Oh wow, I can’t believe it but we are heading to China!!!!  We are leaving May 2^nd at 6am and getting back May 19^th at 11:47pm.  My stomach is all messed up and I still can’t think straight.  I keep thinking of All the things that need to get done (which is a lot).  We are leaving in two weeks and I don’t even have hotels booked!  I am just trusting God to work it all out.  Our Gotcha day is going to be May 7^th.  I can’t wait to meet him!  So here are our plans thus far:

May 2^nd:   Leave Indianapolis airport at 6am.

               :   Arrive at Newark Liberty Airport (New Jersey) at 7:57am (love how they                      have the time down to the minute, do you think they actually will land at 7:57am on the nose?)

                :   Leave Newark at 11:55am and arrive in Beijing at 1:45pm on May 3^rd.  We lose a day here.

May 3^rd-  May 6^th:  Explore Beijing (We need a hotel and guide still)

May 6^th:  8:20am leave Beijing and fly to Nanchang where our little guy is.  We will arrive in Nanchang at 10:30am.

May 7^th:  Gotcha Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May 8^th-May 11^th:  Explore Cole’s city and where he was born.   We hope to visit the orphanage and then there is paperwork and stuff to do.

May 11^th:   Fly out of Nanchang and go to Guangzhou (We don’t have these tickets yet and we are waiting for our in China coordinator to get back with us on these).

May 11^th-17^th:  Visit around Guangzhou and paperwork and doctor’s appointments.

May 17^th:  Our Consulate Appointment!   This is a biggie because it is the last step in this whole adoption. 

May 18^th:  The day they issue the visa and we can go home!

May 19^th:  10:30am leave Guangzhou and fly to Beijing.

                :    1:35pm arrive in Beijing

                :   6:25pm leave Beijing and fly home to the states!!!  Washington Dulles airport to                     be  exact.

                 :  8:02pm arrive at Washington D.C.   Look it is only a 2 hour flightJ

                 :  10:02pm:  Leave Washington D.C. for Indianapolis!!!!!

                 :  11:47pm:   Arrive in Indianapolis and probably crash due to exhaustion!

May 20^th:  Cole sees his home for the first time.  He gets to meet three cats and one dog.  I am tearing up as I write this. 

This whole thing has seemed so surreal up to now.    It really has been a smooth process as adoptions go.  I just pray that our trip is just as smooth and that our bonding and attachment is just as smooth!