Itinerary

Our journey begins in two days!! We cannot wait to meet our little monkey -- it is hard to believe that we will be holding her in our arms in one week! Soon, we will be a family of four. :)

We are going to China a few days early as we are heading back to Maelyn's province to visit her orphanage and foster home. On our first journey, we were not able to visit the orphanage because of flooding in the area. We are thrilled that we are going to be able to go back just over two years since Maelyn came into our family.

We are hoping to be able to get more information about Maelyn's life before she came to us -- any information we can piece together for her would be invaluable. For two and half years I have wondered about where Maelyn lived and have always felt drawn to the place where our daughter experience the first 21 months of her life.

The following is an outline of our itinerary --


Nov. 21 - Arrive in Shanghai at 4pm local time and head to hotel.

Nov. 22 - Take train from Shanghai to Shangrao (9am - 1:30pm).
              - Shopping for orphanage donations in the afternoon.

Nov. 23 - Visit the orphanage and foster family; have lunch with the orphanage staff.

Nov. 24 - Van ride to visit finding spot; have lunch in Wannian County.
              - 2 hour van ride to Nanchang airport; flight to Guangzhou, Guangdong.

Nov. 25 - Free day.

Nov. 26 - Forever Family Day -- we meet Ailee!!!

Nov. 27 - Registration and notarization of adoption (paperwork day).

Nov. 28 - Apply for Ailee's Chinese passport.

Nov. 29 - Sight-seeing.

Nov. 30 - Free day/Sight-seeing.

Dec. 1 - Fly to Beijing.

Dec. 2 - Paperwork for Canadian Visa.

Dec. 3 - Medical examination at International SOS Clinic.

Dec. 4 - Visit the Great Wall / Jade factory.

Dec. 5 - Hutong tour and visit the Drum Tower.

Dec. 6 - Shopping!!

Dec. 7 - Fly home!! (Beijing to Shanghai; 6 hour layover; Shanghai to Toronto -- arrive 6:25pm)