Oh happy day! Next steps are: National Visa Center cabled (nine days), Article 5 (20 days), China issues travel approval (18) and, lastly, Consulate Appointment.
We are possibly looking at the third week of November to actually getting the travel approval and possibly travelling the first week of December. We'll just have to wait and see though.
And on the home front... we are BUSY! and making good progress with the girls' schooling. What a big difference going from public school teaching to Christian-base education.
On the way home from the doctors Makena mentioned in conversation with dad how she would not want to go back to public school because they don't talk about Jesus and there is no time to pray.
Ry definitely took this day seriously.
Kind of funny story because it just poured down rain for about two hours (check the background). In Hawaii if it rains on Halloween, children go trick or treating the next day. Well I called my mom who lives Upcountry and she said "It's not raining here!" So the girls said they will save their outfits for next year. But the rain moved on into the Pacific Ocean and the rest is history.
