Wednesday, June 8--drive to Charlotte and spend the night
Thursday, June 9--leave Charlotte airport in the morning, make our way through Dallas and LA and on to Shanghai. Our longest flight is about 14 hours.
Friday, June 10--arrive in Shanghai in the evening, local time; spend the night in a hotel
Saturday, June 11--fly from Shanghai to Jinan; meet friends; stay in the guest bedroom of friends of friends
Sunday, June 12--more meeting of friends, hopefully some shopping in preparation for meeting our son, hopefully attending the weekly get-together of Christian foreign teachers in the evening
Monday, June 13--move to a hotel, meet our son for the first time and spend the rest of the day and night with him
Tuesday, June 14--sign the official adoption paperwork
Wednesday, June 15--Tim gives a science lecture at Shandong University
June 15-17--somewhere in here we hope to get permission to visit our son's orphanage and school, meet the people who are important to him and find out more about him from them
Friday, June 17--receive our copy of the official adoption decree, along with our son's Chinese passport
June 18-19--see friends and do fun stuff as a family
Monday, June 20--celebrate our son's 14th birthday!
Tuesday, June 21--fly to Guangzhou, where a U.S. consulate is located
Wednesday, June 22--first pre-immigration medical appointment for our son; besides a basic physical exam, he will get a TB test and probably several vaccinations
Thursday, June 23--free day; maybe we'll go shopping
Friday, June 24--second pre-immigration medical appointment; our son will have his TB test read and if it looks suspicious he will have a chest x-ray. We expect the chest x-ray to be clear, but we have a couple of extra days to sort things out if they need to do more tests
June 25-26--free days for us; we will meet other families from our agency who are just coming into Guangzhou and probably do some sightseeing as a group
June 27--consulate appointment
June 28--we can pick up our son's immigrant visa in the afternoon
June 29--fly back to the U.S. Just how I always wanted to spend my birthday, entertaining two children on an intercontinental flight! (not) Thanks to the international date line, we'll arrive in the U.S. (in Chicago this time) still on June 29, making it back to Charlotte shortly before midnight. We'll spend the night in a hotel.
June 30--sleep in (if jetlag will let us), visit an Asian grocery store in Charlotte and stock up on foods our son likes, and head home
Prayer request for the day: We have our international plane tickets, but we're still working on many other details of travel. We'd appreciate prayers that we can book the flights and hotels that we need efficiently and economically.
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