8/21/07 We've got our plane tickets...

We will be leaving Seattle on September 7. It will be a long day of travel before we actually get to Nanchang (the province in which he lives), but who's going to be able to sleep anyway!

8/17/07 We received our approval to travel!

I have been so anxious about getting notified that it's time to travel; wondering when that phone call was going to come. Every time the phone rang this week, I hoped it would be our agency calling to give us the good news. This morning when the phone rang, I audibly heard myself whisper that I was being silly; that I need to stop thinking about it so much. This time however, it WAS our agency calling. Hearing those words "we received your approval to travel today", was music to my ears. We should get notified of our consulate appointment early next week.