Last night, after talking to our adoption agency in the afternoon, we had pretty much decided that is was going to be mid-October before we went to get Mia.  Kelly and I were pretty good with that.  Today, they called and told us that our Giving and Receiving Ceremony will be Oct. 1st, so we had better hurry up and get over there!  We just bought our tickets tonight, Kelly worked on child care all afternoon, and it looks like we are ready to go.

We will be leaving next Thursday night, Sept. 27th, at around 9pm.  We will have a four hour flight to LA, then a 14 hour flight to Hong Kong, followed by a 2 1/2 hour flight to Ho Chi Min City.  That is a long flight.  We have scheduled our flights back on Oct. 12th, which is pushing it.  However, we talked to our travel agent, Todd (yes … the same Todd that everyone uses.  And who wouldn’t?  Your crazy if you don’t use him), and he felt that if we needed to stay a little longer, the flights the following week looked reasonably open.  So, that is the plan.  Throw in Columbus Day on Oct. 8th, for which all the US Government offices that we need will be closed, and we have a little challenge on our hands.  But, that has never slowed us down before.

Keep praying for the process, especially while we are in Vietnam.  It would really be great to fly out on Oct. 12th, especially for the our kids here in the US and the people that are helping take care of them.

I”m not sure if I will post anything until next Thursday.  Hopefully the next post will be with pictures from LA or Hong Kong.

Cameron