Consulate Appointment - CA, May 21, 2007

Another day to make our hearts pound and blood pressure quadruple. I talked with our agency travel guy early Monday morning. He said that they had not heard from the China agency about our Consulate Appointment yet. Since it was 10:00 pm in China, we would need to wait until the next day. Hopefully, we would hear soon, since we were still trying to make the June 13th appoitment. (just a sidenote - the Guangzhou province, where our SWI is located, requires us to be in the province for 7 business days with our child BEFORE the consulate appointment. We were cutting it pretty close at this point.) At 11:55, I was headed out the door for a 2 hour hair appointment when the phone rang. I nearly ignored it, but grabbed it at the last second. It was our travel guy saying that our CA was confirmed, Gotcha Day was set up for Monday, June 4, and we were heading out NEXT WEEK! Oh, and by the way, the US consulate over in China has no records of our FBI immigrations fingerprints being updated. I, of course, went into panic mode - trying to find and fax our fingerprints records, trying to figure out why the fax machine wouldn't work, trying to get ahold of Todd (who has no phone access at work) to tell him to cancel his TDY for the following week and to get home to deal with faxes, fingerprints and airfare, etc. I was 15 minutes late for my hair appointment, but Todd breezed into the house and calm descended. By the time I arrived home nearly 4 hours later, everything was done and Todd was on the phone buying our plane tickets. The countdown has begun - 1 week and 2 days.

Now, about that childcare . . .