After all that hounding folks in China, the expense (>$1200), checking and rechecking the forms, fedexing documents to a company in NYC to expedite the visa processing, facetiming with admins to make sure the information was correct, and the long long wait, we finally got our China Visa today. Yippeee. And also underwhelming--it was just 1 sticker on each of our passports. I told Annette, "All that for this?" She said, "Get used to it. Bureaucracy in China means taking a lot of time and trouble to do very simple things." OK, here we go.
We are packing 4 big suitcases, 4 carryons, and 3 big air purifiers for our trip. T minus 5 days until take off.
Samuel has just started to express a lot of hesitation about moving from Boston. "Can we go to China for 2 days and then come back to Boston?" he asked Annette this morning. Joshua is feeling "good and happy" about it, for now.
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