China Itinerary

Our In-China itinerary has been finalized. We leave on June 5th to fly to China on NorthWest Airlines. Almost 24 hours later, after brief stops in Detroit and Tokyo, we will arrive in Beijing, China at 9:30pm on June 6th. We are very excited to see Beijing as we travelled through Hong Kong on our first trip, skipping Beijing entirely.

We will stay in Beijing 3 nights at the Zhaolong Hotel. We hope to see the Great Wall and the China Care home in Beijng where Lyra spent time before and after her surgery in December 2006. We will be travelling with 8 other families in Beijing but will split up for the next portion of the trip.

On Monday, June 9th, we fly to Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province and stay 4 nights at the Shanxi Grand Hotel. Tuesday morning we will travel to the Civil Affairs Building to meet Lyra! Wednesday will be spent on paperwork. Thursday we will visit the Taiyuan City orphanage. Friday we will pick up Lyra's paperwork and passport and travel to Guangzhou that afternoon.

All adoptive families end up in Guangzhou. This is where we will also meet up with the rest of our travel group in Guangzhou. We are staying 5 nights at the White Swan. Woo Hoo!! This is where we stayed last time for the entire trip. We are looking forward to frequenting the shops and restaurants is this very familiar area. They also have a wonderful playroom for the children at the White Swan.

Wednesday, June 18th, we will board a plane in Guangzhou at 8:20am. 22 hours later, we will be home at 6:20pm the same day. It will be a very, very long day! It will make our anniversary the longest day of the year (which happens to be June 18th)!