Ready for the tour - Friday, June 24, 2011

Packing up to leave on Saturday, June 25, 2011. Our flight leaves Boston at 6am for NYC/JFK Airport. We will then catch a 16 hour flight to Hong Kong. We arrive in HK on Sunday, 2pm Sunday afternoon. Then the next day we will take the girls to Hong Kong Disney. Then tour around the city and Victoria Peak. Along with my friend Ginger, we travel with her daughters Hannah, 10, Olivia, 8, and Ella, 5, and then my two girls, Elizabeth, 11, and Rebecca, age 9. After two days in Hong Kong, we take a train to Guangzhou for a quick memory tour of the last stage of the adoption process that took place in 2001 (for Elizabeth) and 2003 (for Rebecca). From Guangzhou we fly to Suixi to visit Rebecca’s orphanage, then fly to Beijing to join a larger group of families touring China. We will be four full days in Beijing, then take an overnight train to Xian where we will visit the terracotta soldier museum. Then off to Chengdu to visit the panda breeding research base, where the girls will get to hold a baby panda. Then way south to Guilin where we will take a boat down the Li River amidst the stunning background of the karst mountains. While in Yangshuo, we will attend the colorful Liu Sanjie Impression show (created by the man who choreographed the Beijing Olympics!). Then we will visit Elizabeth’s orphanage in Jiangxi Province, and, finally, fly home through Hong Kong to arrive in NYC, and then Boston, Friday evening, July 15th. At each stop, I hope to provide more details on what we see and experience. Bye for now!