The great news is that we will meet our son, Carson Zhou Crossley, 8 days earlier. The sad news is that our trip has been extended and is now 18 days. That is a long time for three year olds to be without Mom and Dad. Although we will miss Hope and Hannah like crazy, we both know it is the right decision to leave them home. They are pretty high maintenence kids and although they will have plenty of sad moments, it is more important to keep them healthy and be able to devote 100% of our attention to our new son. We will not be traveling with a group this time so we would have fewer adults to help us.
The trip has been extended because Carson's birth city, Dalian, now requires adoptive parents to be in the province for 10 days before issuing his passport to move on to Guangzhou. This is where the US Consulate is located and where he will have his medical exam. We enjoyed Guangzhou very much in 2004. OK, Hilary and I enjoyed it. Keith didn't look so thrilled with the teen and wife when they returned with even more shopping bags.
With the Olympics coming next year, we expect to see many changes from our last trip. There was a great deal of refurbishing of buildings going on so we look forward to the improvements. My personal hope is that many of the squat toilets have been replaced with western toilets. I won't be so foolish this time as to take so many toilet seat covers. What I really need is stronger thigh muscles!
I'll post more as we learn more about our itinerary.
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