Well, tomorrow we fly out to China. It's a little chaotic tonight, getting everything packed into the 5 suitcases among us, each only being able to weigh 44 pounds. But we're managing. We fly from the Pheonix airport tomorrow at 4:30 and will arrive at Los Angelos at about 6:00. Then we have a 6 hour layover at the airport before we leave for China at about 12. We will arive at Guangzhou at 6:50 a.m their time [3:50 p.m. Arizona time, 6:50 p.m. Kentucky time.]. Then we fly out at 10:00 a.m. for Beijing, and arrive at about 12:55 p.m. Yes, that is a lot of traveling we have to do. About 27 1/2 hours total. So we a stocking up on books, games, and really anything we can pass the time with. Well, I have to go and put the finishing touches on packing. I'll keep you posted! Here's a picture of our little travel group.

-Emmy

Reinforcements have arrived!

Karen and Emily (Sara's sister and niece) arrived from Ky. today. Other than Karen having a stress fracture in her foot, they seem to be doing well and very excited about joining us on our journey. Shea is excited about cousin Emmy being here because Emmy spoils her and reads to her all the time. When we decided to bring Shea to China with us (she's only 3), we knew we had to bring Emmy (14 ) along to help out.
All of our travel arrangements have been made for the flights, hotels and all the Beijing tours. The agency has a travel agent who does this for the families. There are a total of 7 families from Az. in our travel group plus a couple more from other places. All together there will be 10 babies in our group with 2 of them being twins adopted by one family. Two of the couples left today to start sightseeing for a week before Gotcha Day, we leave Tuesday to tour Beijing for a few days and I believe the rest of the group will be leaving Friday. I'm pretty sure Gotch Day will be Sunday, Mar. 25th.
All for now,

Sara