CCAI Florida Reunion

This weekend Drew and I are going to Orlando to the CCAI Florida Reunion. We signed up to help with the registration table and we are so excited as this is a great way to see all the beautiful children. We will be staying in the Sheraton Safari Resort and we are looking forward to an evening reception on Friday then a breakfast on Saturday. Of course the highlight will be meeting Lily Nie and Joshua Zhong, founders of our adoption agency, Chinese Children Adoption International.

We were told that there will be mostly families who have already adopted there, but also a number of families "in waiting" like us. If we get any good pictures I will post them after the weekend. We're so excited!

Oooh...the "Brown Envelope"

Strangely enough I only read yesterday, a post on one of my Yahoo Groups about a "brown envelope" that some people recieve, and some don't in the mail. I have never heard of this and all of the sudden today, in the mail, came a brown envelope from Guangzhou, China.

Basically it is the paperwork that we take to the U.S. Consulate General pertaining to our daughter's immigration and visa. The cool part is the actual medical form that they will use when we take her for the medical exam at the Consulate...Seeing all that beautiful Chinese writing is just one more thing that reminds us that this "so out of our control" process is for real!

I guess it is just a formality as I also heard you will fill out these same documents right before your Consulate appt. in Guangzhou, and your CCAI rep will give you the papers you need again anyways. It's still cool to see!