No, I haven't been to the amusement park lately, but I definitely feel like I have been. We have gotten good news, bad news, ok news, more bad news, good news again. I am tired and grumpy. But I wanted to share with you all what all has been going on - at least the parts that you will care about:)
On Thursday, our agency received our Travel Approval. This is the CCAA giving their persmission for us to travel to China to pick up Kate. We actually didn't find this out until Friday (which was our 10th Anniversary, BTW), which was a great way to celebrate! On Monday, Mike, our agency rep called to tell us that the US Consulate in Guangzhou was completely booked up for the entire month of September. So much for leaving in 2 1/2 weeks. In fact, the earliest they would schedule our appointment would be October 21st. Our agency had originally said no travel in October due to the Guangzhou Trade Fair. However, when they got this depressing news they changed their minds and are allowing us to travel October 9-23. Thank goodness for small mercies. Today, we also got our passports back with the required Chinese visas in them! Yeah, us! Then later, we got our price estimates from our travel agent. Also, good news.
Basically there has been more good than bad, but I guess I am just disappointed that it will be another month before we travel. This is also going to conflict with Tim's fall break student mission trip. On the positive, I was freaking out about how I was going to get everything done in the next 2 weeks. Also, we should now be free to tour Beijing without any complications. But it still doesn't quite add up to more positives than negatives. I am trying to trust that God is bringing it all together as it should be, but I am impatient and grouchy. What can I say?
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