Trip to China
September 16  |  Meeting Nola  |  September 18  |  September 19  |  September 20  |  September 21-22  |  September 23  |  September 24  |  September 25-26

OUR ITINERARY September 15-16 Fly from Portland to San Franscisco to Guangzhou to GuiYang September 16 Arrive in GuiYang 8:00pm. Happy Birthday Mom!! September 17 Meet Nola in the morning!!! Then do loads of paperwork. September 18 Hangin’ out and gettin’ to know each other. September 19 Take a tour of a beautiful park, a Zen Buddist temple (Hong Fu Temple) and the Jia Xiu Lou pavilion, built during the Ming Dynasty. This’ll be a great way to celebrate Jennifer’s 40th birthday. September 20 See the GuiYang Children’s Welfare Institute and Nola’s “finding place” (at the factory gates). September 21 Rest, then fly from GuiYang to Guangzhou in the evening. This will be Nola’s first airplane ride! September 22 Nola gets a check up and gets her picture taken for her U.S. Visa. September 23 We get to go to the Safari Park in Guangzhou. This is where we start Nola’s training to be a biologist. September 24 Hang out during the day then take a river cruise in the evening with the other adoptive families. September 25 We submit Nola’s paperwork for her U.S. Visa and maybe do a little shopping at the jade market. September 26 Nola gets her U.S. Visa!!! September 27 We’re going home!!! We leave Guangzhou in the morning and get to Portland by mid-afternoon. What a day this will be. September 28 Move into our new home. As my mother likes to say, “It’s an exciting time to be alive!”

“An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet regardless of time, place or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.” – Chinese proverb


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