take two...

We got our consulate appointment set today!!! It isn't at all what we thought the timing for this trip would be, but the truth is, nothing on this journey to Anna has gone how we would have planned it. Hmmmm. Might mean that we aren't very good planners!

LOL!

Ok, so here are the details...
We (Chris, Amber and I) are leaving Wichita on Friday the 29th in the early afternoon. We will arrive in China in the wee hours of the morning on July 1. Wow. We will be united with our precious Anna Chenghao on Monday, July 2. That happens to be our thirteenth wedding anniversary! Anna's adoption day is the 4th of July. There is an irony to us celebrating Anna's adoption and Independence Day at the same time. Chris will leave Guangzhou on the 4th (late) and arrive back to Wichita on the 5th around 10 a.m. Our consulate appointment is July 12. We get Anna's passport and take her citizenship oath on the 13th. We leave Guangzhou that night and arrive in Los Angeles (where Anna will be welcomed as a new US Citizen) at 6:50 pm on Friday. We will travel to Chicago and then to Wichita overnight and into the morning - arriving in Wichita around 10 a.m.

Whew! I am tired already!

My two big kids are supposed to go to camp on Monday the 16th, but I am beginning to think that plans may change out of necessity. We will work on those details.

Two weeks from now will start our whirlwind adventure to China; a month from now it will all be over. That sure puts it all in perspective, doesn't it?