Going to China!

Okay yesterday we made the biggest purchase of our lives and we now have plane tickets!!! For those of you who are wondering what the details of our trip will be I am happy to fill you in. Here is a picture of the type of plane we will be flying on. We are going on United Airlines and will be traveling on a Boeing 777. Here is a picture for you.

The Jet

 Our seats...

We will be flying over the North Pole

What we might see out the window :-) Lol

We will be landing at the Beijing airport...

Our Schedule looks like this...

Leave Springfield Thursday July 12th @ 5:45 AM  Arrive to Chicago @ 7:17 AM

Then we have 5 hours to go through security and customs to board our International Flight...

We leave Chicago @ 12:45 PM Arrive to Beijing China @ 2:45 PM the next day -Friday (a 13 hour flight)

 On Saturday we will be going to see the Great Wall

Then we will fly from Beijing to Guangzhou on Sunday and we will be there until July 27th.

Picture of the Guangzhou Airport

Guangzhou is where we get Meili!!!

Picture of the Hotel we will be staying at in Guangzhou

We get Meili on Monday morning sometime at the Civil Affairs Office!!!

Gotcha!!!!!!

Here is a picture of Guangzhou

Safari Park

We will take Meili to the Zoo here to see the Pandas! (Ian has requested pictures of them as well)

Coming home with our little one...

We will leave Guangzhou @ 9am and Arrive to Shanghai @ 11:20am

We will have 4 hours to reclaim our bags, go back through security, go through customs, find our gate etc....all with a 21 month old...before we board our International flight to Chicago...Whew! I'm tired already!

We leave Shanghai @ 3:55pm and Arrive to Chicago @ 4:33pm ( a 13 hour flight)

Then we have 4 hours to go through customs, hand over the sealed envelope to immigration and Meili becomes a U.S citizen!!! Yay!! Then we leave for Springfield...

Leave Chicago @ 8:15pm Arrive to Springfield @ 9:44 pm

Then we drive 45 min...

Then we are Home!!!!!!!!

Now any one who wants to meet us at the Airport is more than welcome BUT I can't promise you that we will be in our right minds when we arrive. We may be incoherent...HA! We are planning of doing a little celebration when we get home for those of you who are excited to meet Meili. I am working on the details of that and will keep you posted. As I get our exact Itinerary of what all we will be doing in China I will be sure to post. Love you all and thank you for traveling along with us through our blog. :)