After 18 hours on airplanes over a 26 hour period, we were all very glad to arrive in Jacksonville International Airport Last night at 9:17pm.  Me, Julie, Zach, and Leighanne were ready to be home and sleep in our own beds, drink pure water, eat familiar foods, and see Austin and Jordan for the first… Read More

Praise the Lord we are home with our two new American Citizens! Ben

We are sitting at our gate in Hong Kong waiting to board our flight to Detroit any minute.  For anyone who is interested…. our final leg of the flight is Delta Flight 735 from Atlanta to Jacksonville arriving in Jacksonville at 8:44pm. Ben

We arrived in Hong Kong this afternoon.  We will eat an early breakfast in the morning, check out, and head across the parking lot to the airport for a 9:45am flight to Detroit.  In just 12 hours we will be sitting on an airplane waiting for it to take off for our first of 3… Read More

We completed our consulate appointment this morning around 9:30am.  They consulate told us that the visas should be ready tomorrow morning around 10:30am.  We are currently scheduled on the 4:56pm train out of Guangzhou to Hong Kong, but our guide is currently trying to get it changed to an earlier departure so we won’t get… Read More

Woo hoo — both TB tests were negative so no chest x-rays required!  We have a meeting with our guide tonight to get all of the paperwork ready for tomorrow morning’s Consulate Appointment. Ben

Praise the Lord!  I don’t like that we had to give even 4 shots, but Praise the Lord only 4 were required for Sara so it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been.  They excluded a series of shots because her blood-work showed that she had the antibodies which indicated that she had had the… Read More

We had a wonderful day today sightseeing, but we got back later than normal and are trying to get packed up so we will try to blog about it tomorrow after we get to Guangzhou and get settled. Ben

We just got word from our guide that Sara’s paperwork has been corrected and she has it.  We are still waiting on the passport, but we didn’t expect to get it until tomorrow anyway so we are back on track.  Thank you for your prayers. Ben

We have arrived safely in Beijing ready for a short night’s sleep and then touring all day tomorrow.  Hopefully we can post some pictures tomorrow night. Ben