Itinerary

As you can imagine, it is like Christmas Eve here at our house!!  We are all beyond excited to board our plane in the morning. Many of you have asked what we will be doing each day or what our trip will be like.  I figured the best way to inform everyone was to write out our itinerary:

Nov 7th - Fly from Peoria to Chicago, then from Chicago to Beijing!!
Nov 8th - Arrive in Beijing at 3:40PM local time
Nov 9th - Tour the Great Wall
Nov 10th - travel to Zhengzhou - (where we will get our daughter)
Nov  11th - GOTCHA DAY!!!!  We meet Emme for the first time.
Nov 12th - Mitchells 12th Birthday!! Paperwork, go to Kaifeng City to apply for Emmes passport and hopefully visit her orphanage.
Nov 13th - Free Day
Nov 14th - Paperwork
Nov 15th - Free day
Nov 16th - Travel to Guangzhou
Nov 17th - paperwork
Nov 18th - Emme gets medical physical
Nov 19th - Get Emmes tb test read
Nov 20th - Consulate Appointment
Nov 21 - Receive Emmes visa and take train to Hong Kong
Nov 22 - Fly from Hong Kong to Chicago.  Emme will be a US citizen when we land in Chicago!!
Fly from Chicago to Peoria!

As you can see we will have a lot of down time to get to bond with Emme.  Please keep her in your prayers.  While we can't wait to welcome her in our family on the 11th, she is going to be taken from all she has ever known.