Zai jian

Well the time has arrived.  The bags are packed and I guess we are as ready as we will ever be.  We hope you will follow along as we travel this amazing journey.  The last time I prepared for this trip my arms longed to hold our daughter and now 3 years later I am packing her toys, movies, snacks and clothes as we make this trip together.  We are looking at a total of 2 days of travel.  The first day being the longest....about 27 hours(15 hrs on the big flight) and only about 2 hours on the second day. 

Not sure how our Internet will be the days we are traveling, but hopefully can update at some point on the road.  We should be up and running by Tuesday or Wednesday next week.  Don't forget we will be 13 hours ahead of you time wise(well those of you on central)

The hardest part will be leaving daddy.  We are celebrating Fathers day today.  We have given him some great gifts and had a great family breakfast and we have a few errands and yard work to do today.  But today will be all about daddy and spending our day together. 

Thanks for all the votes of confidence.  This is a journey that we think is incredibly important to our daughter.  We are not afforded the ability to spend a month in Taiwan, but we do in China.  She is going to be bathed in LOVE, culture, heritage, family and most importantly language.  I want this to become so normal to Hayden that she can love both worlds and embrace her culture and heritage and hopefully witness how important those things are to her parents.  I want Hayden to be so proud of where she is from and love that she gets the best of both worlds.  We are VERY blessed to have this type of opportunity. 

So as they say in China Zai jian.....goodbye and we will see you soon:)