WE ARE TRAVELLING!!

Well, last Wednesday night (March 21) I was sitting here working on the computer. I was getting ready to go to bed, but checked my email one last time. I had an email that said "TRAVEL DATES" from Laura. It was there 2 times. I got up looking every where for my phone to see if I had missed a call. Jonathan is wondering why I am acting like a crazy person and then realizes why. I had not missed a call, but promptly called Laura. We chatted for a little while about everything we needed to do. So, here goes our info . . .

We will fly out of Dulles on 4/19 at 7:30 pm and land in LA at 10:30. We will fly out of there at 1:30 am to head to Taiwan via EVA Air. We will arrive in Taipei, Taiwan on 4/21 at 6:30 in the morning. Keep in mind, there is a twelve hour time difference. It will take us about 3 hours to clear the airport there. Then, we will have a driver waiting to take us to another airport so we can hop on a plane to Tainan. By the way, our trave agent was wonderful! Thank you, Todd!!

We will be staying at the Hotel Tainan that our agency books for us. We will be there Saturday, Sunday, and on Monday morning, April 23, we will meet our little girl at St. Lucy's. This will be such an exciting time for all of us.

We are very lucky as we get to experience all of this with another couple, Matt and Molly, from FL who are there to bring home their little boy, Malone. We met through our yahoo groups and had realized we were in the courts at the same time. Who knew we would actually meet our little ones at the same time:) After some emailing back and forth, we also realized we fly back out to the US on the same flight.

After meeting Chloe, we will fly back to Taipei that night. On Tuesday morning, we have our AIT appoinment. This is where we will finalize many things and they will prepare Chloe's VISA. One of us will return the next day to actually get her VISA.

While in Taipei, we will stay at the Dong Wu. Another yahoo member recommended this hotel to us. It is very near several places we would like to see.

While in both cities, we will do as much exploring as our children allow. Many people have given us great advice on places to see, shop, and eat. We will definetely try some authentic food.

We will fly out of Taipei on Friday night at 11:30 pm. Yes, you read that right, 11:30 pm!!! That will make for a long night. Our hotel has given us a much later check out so we don't have to tote our luggage around all day and we have a place to crash. We will arrive back at Dulles on Saturday, April 28 at 7:30 am.

Everyone around here is very excited. I have had to repeat our flight info and take off times over and over for our boys. They ask everyday several times a day to tell them all the info again. We are going to make a "Countdown to Chloe" calendar so they can see how much longer.

Anyway, we are thrilled to finally know when we will get our baby girl. It still does not feel real yet. I bet it will when she is in our arms!