We had our "Travel Call" with our agency on Friday. This means we are close to traveling, right? Well, not exactly. We still have to get our Travel Authorization(TA), which is estimated to come to us in late June. Even after we get our TA, we still can not travel right away. Our agency is saying it has been taking three weeks to get an appointment at the US Consulate in Guangzhou due to the backlog during a recent world convention which was held in Guangzhou. I should of been paying attention, but I got lost at Consulate Appointment. If all plays out they way it looks like it could, we could be meeting our new addition in Kunming around the 26th of July. This would be four years and one week to the day we met Sawyer in the same city. We are very excited and now we are in a mad rush to get Saffi's passport and our Visas.
I know you are probably saying, "why did you wait so long to get Saffi's passport. That is very poor planning on your part." Well, the back story is we just completed her re-adoption in the US on April 30th and still had not received the necessary paperwork to complete the passport application until just this past week. So, let the mad rush begin.
Saffi is very excited to have a little sister and she was a great help when we rearranged her room to make it her and Saige's room. All we have to do now to get her room ready is put a step stool together and get the girls dressers (we ordered them, but the store ordered the wrong ones. We are waiting on the replacements).
To ease my tension, I wet out to Seattle last weekend and went deep sea fishing with some old friends.
We had a great time and we caught a lot of fish. What I mean by we is they caught a lot of fish, I caught a total of two ling cod, a halibut and three rock bass(the limit is ten bass). Everybody else caught there limit on bass.
A couple weeks ago, while Shelby was away on business, I took the kids outside and took some pictures for her Mother's Day gift. Here are some of those pictures.
Keep checking back for more updates. One the ball starts rolling on our trip, I will be updating more and more. Additionally, you all will be able to follow our trip, once again, right here when we bring Saige home.
