Quick update

Hi all we made it to China . It was a long trip to say the least!!!!!!! We will leave for Chongqing tommorow morning and will try to update when we get back to the hotel . Bye for now
Kent and Deanna

Itinerary for China

We now have or itinerary now for our trip to china and it looks like we will stay busy while we are there with lots of places to see, We are hoping to go see the orphanage where Madalyn has been for for the last 23 months but not sure we will get there. Anyway here is our itinerary :
Nov 28: Leave Charlottetown 9:15 am
Nov 29: Arrive in Beijing 5pm
Nov 30: Free day and last day for group to arrive in Beijing
Dec 1 : Depart for Chongqing in morning Receive Madalyn in afternoon
Dec 2: Family picture( not really as Brandon won`t be there ),registration at gov`t office and notarization of documents
Dec 3: Administration duties and shopping
Dec 4: Visit Hong Ya Dong and receive Madalyn`s documents and passport
Dec 5: Depart back to Beijing
Dec 6: Children's pictures,group photo`s and collecting of docs. for Canadian Embassy and visit to Beijing Zoo
Dec 7: The great Wall
Dec8: The Summer Palace
Dec 9: Tienanmen Square and Forbidden City
Dec 10: Shopping, the silk store and the indoor market
Dec 11: Receive Canadian documents and depart for Canada( we are staying the night in Toronto)
Dec 12: Arrive at the Charlottetown airport at 7:20pm

We looked up the hotels we will be staying at and they look very nice esspecially the on in Chongqing Its called the Hony Ya Dong hotel and is overlooking the river and it looks like a beutiful view can`t wait to be there

Kent and Deanna

Counting Sleeps

Well we are now down to counting sleeps til we leave , we only have 19 more before we leave and 21 before we get Madalyn. We got our Letter Seeking Confirmation last week and signed it and sent it back to China now we just have to get our Travel Authority and we are set to go. We don`t have our final itinerary for China yet but should have that tonight .So all and all things are coming together fairly well .
We are trying to get some things packed: one suitcase for Beijing , one for Chongqing,our carryons & one for Madalyn.We don't know her size so I'm just guessing her clothes size.
We have a schedule figured out for who will look after Brandon while we are gone..I think we're going to miss Brandon more than he'll miss us.After we get home,there's only one week of school then it's christmas vacation.He'll have some time to get to know his little sister.He thinks we should go back and get a brother too!!!! I'm thinking one sibling will be enough for him
We are hoping that time will keep flying by-especially the next 2 1/2 weeks.It seems like yesterday that we got our referral.No matter how time flies it never seems to go fast enough !!!!We just want to get our little girl home so we can love her more.
Looking forward to posting pics of us with our daughter soon!!!