T Minus Two Weeks and Counting!

Today is the last day of June.  It’s going to be a scorcher here!  The Weather Channel said that we’re supposed to hit 97 for a high.  Everyone keeps saying how hot that is, but we need to get used to it!  That’s around the average high for Guangzhou. 

In two weeks, on July 14, we leave for Beijing, the first leg of the trip.  We’ll be getting there in the late afternoon on Friday.  Our bodies, however, will believe it’s the middle of the night!  We’re going to stay up as late as possible and then go to bed at normal bedtime hours which means that we’ll probably crash hard around 8 or 9 pm.  Saturday will have us going to Tiananmen Square, The Forbidden City, and The Summer Palace.  On Sunday, we’ll be going to the International Church Service and then the Great Wall of China.  After that we pack! 

Monday morning, July 18, we’ll be flying to Nanchang.  Family Day!!!  We’ll FINALLY get to hold Teagin.  There are no words to describe how I feel at this point.  Excited is a given.  But there’s just so much more to my emotions about this.  This will be the culmination of a very long adoption journey for us…one we started back in December of 2005.  The wait has been so long and tedious with no apparent end ever in sight…until now!  I cannot wait to study her little hands, her tiny toes, tickle her tummy, kiss her chubby cheeks. 

Blogging could be an issue.  This website AND Facebook are both blocked over there.  We’re looking to get a VPN to use while over there.  We were considering a Panda Phone, but with a VPN, we can use our computer to “phone” home.  I can also post updates and the much awaited and begged for pictures!  I’m not going to post EVERY picture I take, but will post a few of the best Kodak moments.  I plan on filling that SD chip up every single day!!  It is my goal to document as much of this trip as possible.  It is, after all, the trip of a lifetime.  I will be leaving with my arms empty and return home with the most precious bundle one can receive. 

In the meantime, we’re frantically finishing last minute projects to get the house ready.  We’re hoping to mostly get the nursery put together this weekend and I’ll move all of the packing paraphernalia in there to free up the living room.  So probably no fireworks this 4^th of July.  We’ll be too dead tired!