Three Weeks Away (or "You hear that Mr. Anderson?")

As the Countdown Timer reminds me of our approaching travel date, I hear the Sound of Inevitability.  No, it's not Death, but it certainly is coming at us like a train.  We've gotten a lot accomplished here at the house, but there always seems to be more to do.  Our next big adventures include:

• to start actually packing what we've been staging
• updating the packing list so we know what we're missing
• finding all of our adoption and travel documents
• preparing our house for our house sitter to stay over
• making sure we stay healthy before we travel

So there's not really much left to do after all of that. Yeah...

A friend of the family warned us that we might not be able to access Blogspot.com from China.  If that is the case, Plan B is to update this blog via email.  I can't put in all the crazy links and such right away, but at least we can get info and photos out to the world.  Plan C is to have a secret mystery guest blogger here in the States post for us.  We'll just have to see what China allows us to do on the Internets.

Our adoption agency just set up an official Yahoo Group for our Travel Group so that we can all start to mingle virtually.  And Mel and I have been the only ones to post anything so far.  Echo, echo, echo...  Hopefully the rest of the group will join in soon.

Our official Travel Group meeting and conference call is scheduled for next Thursday.  This is where most of the first-timers will have some sort of "Oh carp!" moment and realize they've forgotten something and they have less than two weeks to take care of it.  We had fun last time around ourselves.  Hopefully, we're carp-proof this time around.