Travel Approval!!

It's official- we received our approval to travel today! Our agency called at about 1pm, Jim and I both got on, Jenny our CCAI rep said she had emailed the US consulate in China requesting a consulate appointment the week of Thanksgiving- and would we be ready to go by November 9th or 10th- gulp. Of course we said YES! We are still waiting to hear on the consulate appointment which sometimes takes a couple of days. Our entire trip will be structured around this appointment- our agency is pretty good at estimating, so we should be leaving sometime the end of next week, spend a week in Shanghai, travel to Guangzhou where the American consulate is, spend about 5 days there. We should leave for Beijing on Thanksgiving, or the day after, we will spend three nights in Beijing, then head for home!
Our heads are spinning right now with all that needs to be done, but what has to get done will get done, the rest can wait- we're going to China!

For all our family and friends- Kellan started his own blog for the trip, I added it to the links at the right! He is incredibly excited!