We have our Itinerary:

• Friday Dec 1 - leave Greensboro 6:20AM Flight 2478 Continental
• Arrive in Newark 8:01 AM

• Leave Newark at 12:15PM for Beijing on Continental Flight 89

• Saturday December 2nd in China (Friday night in NC)
• arrive in Beijing at 3:00 PM

• Leave Beijing on Flight 3180 China Southern to Zhengzhou
• Arrive in Zhengzhou at 9:20PM (Saturday AM in NC)
• Stay in Zhengzhou at Crown Plaza December 2nd night and December 3rd Day (to rest)
• Our guide will met us on 12/3 and we will get Chao on 12/4.
• We will do paperwork in Zhengzhou on Monday and then leave for Luoyang on the orphanage van. In Luoyang, we are staying at the Huayang Hotel.
• Thursday December 7th, Daniel will leave from Luoyang on flight 5695 China Eastern to Beijing. He will arrive in Beijing at 12:10PM. he will take flight 88 from Beijing to Newark, arriving at 5:40PM in Newark. Then he will take Continental Flight 2292 from Newark to Greensboro - he will arrive at 9:38PM.
• December 9th - return to Zhengzhou via van
• Take flight 3971 at 11:20AM to Guangzhou.
• Arrive in Guangzhou 1:30 PM
• December 9th - 15 stay at White Swan.
• Friday Dec. 15 we leave Guangzhou at 10AM for Beijing - arrive at 12:55
• We leave Beijing at 5:00PM and land in Newark at 5:40 PM - Wow that's fast! LOL
• We leave Newark at 8:05 PM and get to Greensboro at 9:52PM on flight 2292.
  
  
  After that I think we plan to sleep til Christmas! ::giggle::
  

Unbelieveable.. We got our TA.
We hope to leave on December 1 and get Chao on December 3rd! For Annabelle we traveled 12/1-12/17 last year so deja vu!

If you'd like to follow our journey, join our yahoogroup at

2china4jack@yahoogroups.com

or email me and I'll add you - shellic@triad.rr.com

Thanks to all for your words of encouragement!

My homepage: http://web.mac.com/shellic

Well, that was a big disappointment. Our agency was expecting a package today -- we were told WEEKS ago that TAs were coming and for several groups. Nope. Just the poor souls who have been waiting 147 days got theirs. I'm so glad they did but those of us just behind them are still left in the dark. I have heard another package is coming but I'm not holding my breath. I've accepted the fact that the presents with Chao's name on them will just have to sit here and wait for him. He won't be here at Christmas, I'm betting. I could be wrong, but why get my hopes up only to have them crushed? Nope. I'm staying right here in my temper tantrum, sad mode.

AGGGH.

I haven't posted in a while because I am just SICK of waiting for TA. We were LID on 7/22 and are now almost day 110. I don't feel justified in complaining because I have friends who are on day 140 almost. ::UGH::

We don't know why but no one w/ our agency has TA. We all just wait and wonder and wish.

::sigh::

Maybe we'll go in December.

Hang on Chao. We're trying to get there, buddy.