Travel Plans

The last week or so has been devoted to figuring out all the logistics for getting to and around China. Here's what we are doing, with websites for our hotels, for any of you who want to follow along.

We’ll be flying out of SFO 1:30 am Monday, May 2^nd, returning to SFO the night of May 20^th. Direct, non-stop to and from Hong Kong. We arrive May 3^rd in Beijing (via Hong Kong) in the afternoon. We'll be sight-seeing in Beijing as a pre-trip before the adoption.
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/hotel/kerry-center-hotel-beijing.htm

May 7^th in the late afternoon we fly to Guangzhou and meet the rest of our group of 22 adopting couples. We stay in The China Marriott Hotel that night and the next.
http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/canmc?WT_Ref=mi_left

May 9^th we split up into smaller groups to go to individual provinces and/or orphanages. We go to Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province. We’ll be staying here May 9^th through May 13^th, at the Gloria Hotel.
http://www.gloriahotels.com/gloria_en/plaza/nanchang.asp

May 9^th we receive our babies!!

We spend the rest of the week doing local, provincial paperwork for the adoption. We are holding out some hope that we can get to visit the actual town our daughter is from, Tonggu, 3 to 4 hours away from Nanchang in the mountains.

May 14^th we return to Guangzhou to do more paperwork, mostly with the American Embassy there. We’ll be back in the China Marriott Hotel through May 19^th.

We fly home the evening of May 20^th, and arrive a few hours before we left due to crossing the date-line.

Jiangxi: Tonggu in red, Nanchang in blue