We made some good progress this past week. Day to day it still seems like things are moving slowly...but then I think about the likelihood that in just 4 weeks we will be days away from leaving for China and I am amazed that we are almost at the end of this journey. Then a whole new journey begins!
Monday: We received our visas from the courier. Freshly stamped with approval for us to enter China one time before 2-14-14. This was such a relief! Having our passports out of our hands was a bit scary I must say...I really don't like when things are out of my control!
Tuesday: We found out that an online China research company we had contacted last month has found Audra's "Finding Ad". What a huge blessing this is to us...and will be to Audra when she is older. This will likely be the youngest picture taken of Audra that we will ever have. She will probably be just a couple weeks or months old in the picture. (More to come on this later)
Wednesday: We had our visit with the Travel Medicine Specialist. "Don't drink the water...no ice...no salad...use caution at buffets...only eat fruit that you have to peel...use lots of deet bug spray..." We each got the Typhoid fever vaccine, Hepatitis A vaccine and Polio booster. We were also given prescriptions for Cipro...just.in.case!
Thursday: a quiet day of waiting and wondering
Friday: Tim and Dawn received their approval letter from the National Visa Center (we received ours last week). We can now move forward with the process of obtaining the girls' US visas. The visa paperwork will be dropped off at the US Consulate in China (hopefully in the next 36 hours) then we have a two week wait until it is ready for pick up. The only step after that is to get Travel Approval from the China Adoption Authority. We should be getting on a plane heading to China in 4.5 weeks!!!
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