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I'm sooooo tired.  Sooooo tired.  We have to be up in four hours to get ready....flight leaves at 7 am. 

I guess this is it for now!

Update

We're mostly packed....one or two items that need to be bought, but that is it.  However, we still have a lot to do.  So this post is being written at the speed of lightening.  Yes, I'm that fast.

Okay, I sent out emails to everyone that wrote me about the travel blog.  Please note that the login and password will be case sensitive. 

I had one email address didn't work, so if you sent me an email to get the travel blog info and you didn't get anything from me, let me know. 

We leave tomorrow!  I can't help but start to cry every now thinking about boarding the plane and that I'll be holding Z soon. 

I'll probably update here again before we go, but who knows. 

Congratulations, Bandit!!!

I want to send mad love to my truckin' partner and friend, ChicagoMama, she received her referral today!  Congratulations, girl! 

Get Your Travel Blog Here

We are going to keep a travel blog while we're in China, complete with pictures and daily updates.  I'm contemplating password protecting it, and I know for sure that I will not link to it from here.  Because...well, because I want some control over who gets to read it. Most people that know me in real life do not know about Shelba and I want to keep it that way. 

But, if you want the link and the possible password/login, then either comment here or send me an email.  If you don't get a response right away, know that I'm mad busy (that is me being mad hip) and that I probably won't send out the link, etc until the weekend anyway. 

Consulate Appointment!!!

We got it!!!!  We can book our bitchin' tickets!  We'll be in China at least 3 days before we're supposed to be there! 

We're flying American, by the way. 

The expected date to meet Z is on June 6! 

Details, details

I'm sitting here anxiously hitting refresh, checking my email every other second, waiting for the consulate appointment.  We should know in the next hour if it came or not.  But it really has to come today, it has to.  *Insert hyperventilating*

Okay, so details on the bitchin' tickets.  They will cost us $250 roundtrip from here to Hong Kong. (we're booking a separate ticket to Beijing)  1st class!  Thank goodness for miles. We were able to use them after all.  If we get the consualte appointment that our agency requested, then we will use these tickets and leave one week from tomorrow, so we'll go a couple of days early to spend time in Hong Kong and then off to Beijing to do extra sightseeing. 

We would return on the 17th.   

I really, really, really hope that we get word today and that it is for the dates that we've booked, and that we'll be leaving on a jet plane in a week. 

Will report back within in the hour.  This is Shelba, reporting live from her living room in Austin, TX. 

Bitchin' Tickets

Oh dear Lord, please, please give us our consulate appointment date tomorrow.  We have bitchin' tickets to China being held for us until midnight tomorrow, so if we don't get our dates tomorrow....bye, bye bitchin' tickets. 

 

Travel Dates?

We don't have our travel dates yet, *insert pout* but it looks like we'll hear something on Monday.  We're supposed to prepare to leave on June 2nd still, but like I've said before, it could be later.  We're going to see if we can put tickets on hold this weekend, because time is slipping away and with holidays, plus this being prime traveling season....it might be tricky. 

I'm not worried.  Nope.  I'm refusing to worry.  La la la la!  Not worried.  We'll get there, yes, we will.  I need to direct any worrying towards stuff like light-weight suitcases, baby proofing our house, learning child cpr/1st aid, and finding rugs to protect Z's noggin from our wood floors. 

Oh yeah, and we have to drive the dogs to Mississippi...we have to find time to do that. 

When?

We're waiting on our consulate appointment to be confirmed so that we may make travel arrangements.  Still don't know if we're leaving in one week, two weeks, or three weeks.  I'm busy busting my butt.  There is nothing like waiting until the last minute to get everything done.   

Travel Approval

Holy shit!  We might be leaving for China in two weeks!  It isn't written in stone, but it is a very real possibility!!!  Two weeks!!  Oh my God!  I have so much to do!