最后人民上飞机

Google tells me that these characters mean: "The last to board the plane." That's us, the people who say, leave in 2 weeks for our son? No thanks. We would like to torture ourselves for an extra 6 weeks, if you don't mind.

Depending on the day we are able to secure for our Consulate Appointment (when the final US portion of the adoption is complete in China) at the end of the trip, we should be leaving here on the 27th of October, give or take a couple of days.

Our reasons for delaying travel to Ian are many. Mainly, Shawn can't easily take this much time off work in September, which we predicted. October is too crazy with holidays in China to travel. Finally, by leaving at the end of October to begin our trip in Beijing, we will arrive home in mid-November, and I'll be able to take the rest of the year off rather than feeling compelled to go back in the middle of the holidays. We feel like this will give Ian some good time to transition, see his first doctors, and enjoy his first visits with relatives before contemplating another big change.

So, with that said, brace yourselves for posts about packing, itineraries, and other -yawn- boring pre travel information. Who knows, I may actually have pictures of Ian's room up eventually and possibly even a post or two or really vital info, like what I ate for breakfast that day.

My newest stress: Finding out that daycare costs more per month than an Escalade!