Blogging from China?

Hi Everybody, We are just a couple hours from taking the 1st of our 11 flights around the world. I thought I would just give a quick outline for those who may not have heard what the plans are. July 1st we fly to LA via Denver. July 2nd we take the red-eye from LA to Hong Kong. We have several hours to walk around and go shopping in Hong Kong before we fly to Guilin. Here is a picture of the beautiful landscape as seen from the Li river.We have 2 days in Guilin before meeting the rest of the families in our adoption group on the 6th in Beijing. Then we have 2 days of touring where we can see the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Tianamen Square, and a few more famous sites.

(Pictures "borrowed" from other sites, thanks to whoever took them.)

On the evening of the 9th we fly to Wuhan, and meet little Shaela on the morning of the 10th!!! The rest of our trip is bonding with Sheala, filling out lots of papers, meeting with government officials, shopping (of course)... and possibly some time for more site seeing. On the 15th we fly to Guangzhou, and we fly home on the 21st.

We should be able to email in posts of text only messages onto the blog from our trip. However, because of censorship issues in China, it is likely that we may not be able to log in to Blooger.com for adding pictures until we get back. And we probably won't be able to read comments that you post, but please feel free to post comments and blessings. We plan on printing out the blog and making a book out of it later. But we will see how ambitious I feel after we have a toddler in the house.

Love & Blessings, Justin & Deb.

The journey begins...