Been a busy few days. Between the usual activity at our house, Matt and I have had some trip planning to do.
Now if you know me at all you know I love to plan a trip. It is kind of like a sport to me. Researching and searching for the best prices and deals. But this time, friends, it was rough. I'm not sure why it was so much harder. Maybe because there was less wiggle room for travel arrangements, maybe because there was so much at stake this trip but booking flights was tougher. I spent 2 days looking for flights. Let me re-phrase that. I spent 2 days looking for flights to get home! Getting to Beijing in no problem and were relatively inexpensive. Easy, Peasy, Lemon Squeesy. Getting home? Not so much. But I did find them and book them.
Then hotels. Usually the agency books them but since we have been saving points on several hotel credit cards we wanted to use them to pay for our stays and to do that we had to book them ourselves. This trip will involve 5 hotel stays.
1- Hotel airport the night before our 5:45 am flight paid for with cc reward
2- Beijing hotel tbd by agency so we are not sure yet which hotel it will be
3-Zhengzhou (and this is the important one because this is where we will be for our first days with Belle)
Crowne Plaza Zhengzhou
Paid for with cc rewards
4-Guangzhou for the American part of our adoption
China Hotel Guangzhou
Paid for with cc awards
5-Overnight in Hong Kong for flight home! I'm still working on that one!
And those are just the travel arrangement! The agency is booking all our in country flights.
Is your head spinning yet? Ya, me too. And that doesn't even begin to take into account the things we are doing in the house to prepare for our latest blessing.
And can I tell you? It is all so amazing. It's just a different kind of labor. Just my way of bringing my daughter into my world.
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