On Wednesday the 12th, we got "soft" travel approval (meaning we showed up in the CCCWA system as having received travel approval), "hard" travel approval (meaning the actual travel approval document arrived in WACAP's mailbox) and got our consulate appointment booked! All in one day! (It just doesn't usually happen that way.) We got our first choice for consulate appointment - March 18th. That date is what the trip to China is based around, so we were then able to purchase our international flights and schedule our in-country itinerary by Friday, the 14th. Happy Valentine's Day to us! ;)
We will be driving to Washington and then flying out of Seattle for China the evening of March 5th. We'll take custody of M on March 9th. There are many other steps involved in completing her adoption and making it possible for her to travel to the US that we will complete that week and the next, and then we'll fly back into Seattle on March 20th. Whew! Can't believe this is coming up so quickly. And yet, at the same time, we long to get our little girl in our arms even sooner.
It's "real," folks!
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