Our Itinerary for the trip

With just two weeks before our trip, our itinerary is set, we are beginning to pack and the excitment level increased each day.

Dec.7, 2006: Leave Portland at noon, for the long, long flight to Tokyo, then on to Beijing.
Dec.8 ,2006: Kathy will pick you up at the airport and send you to the hotel.
De.9,2006: Sightseeing to visit Tian Anmen Sqaure, Forbidden City, Summer Palace.
Dec.10,2006: Sightseeing to The Great Wall, Ming Tombs, visit Silk Factory .
Dec.11,2006: Shopping to Yaxiu Market , Beijing Pearl Market for souvenir etc. and watch Peking Opera at night.
Dec.12,2006: Visit China Center of Adoption Affairs. Jeff to airplane museum. Watch Acrobatics Show.
Dec.13,2006: Sightseeing to Temple of Heaven, Hutong Tour; walking around the back sea area.
Dec.14,2006: Sightseeing to see Panda Bear, Beijing Zoo, Beihai Park;
Dec.15,2006: Go leave for Hefei. Walking in the area around the hotel.
Dec.16,2006: Visit the area of the village that Meng was fostered.
Dec.17,2006: Visit an ancient town near Hefei.
Dec.18,2006: Visit the Hefei orphanage for half day. Walking to the department store and the shopping street nearby the hotel;
Dec.19,2006: Sightseeing to the Lord Bao’s Temple, Lord Bao’s Tomb. The local guide will pick up the two boys at the airport in Guangzhou;
Dec.20,2006: Leave Hefei for Guangzhou, meet up with Ben and Adam.
Dec.21,2006: Sightseeing to Six Banyan Temple, Guangdong Folk and Art Museum;
Dec.22,2006: Shopping to walking shopping street; Jewelry Market Shopping;
Dec.23,2006: White Clouds Park, White Clouds Mountains, visit new US Consulate area;
Dec.24,2006: Free Day on the island;
Dec.25,2006: Chirstmas Day celebration;
Dec.26,2006: Leave Guangzhou for HK by train.
Dec.27,2006: Hong Kong, staying at friend's home.
Dec.28,2006: Hong Kong sightseeing
Dec.29,2006: Leave Hong Kong at 8:45am, arrive home, same day at 6:55am NW flt #6
SLEEPING FOR DAYS!

Waiting and counting down the days

We are so excited and looking forward with great anticipation to our trip to China. Jeff and the girls leave on the 7th of December, and the boys will join us on the 19th. We will spend Christmas at the super deluxe White Swan hotel in Guangzhou. Guangzhou is located in the southern area of China so the weather should be warm and wonderful. Especially since Jeff, Vic, Katrina and Meng ( JVKM) will be coming from Beijing and Hefei, which will not be warm at all!

For those of you not familar with our family, let me introduce you. My husband of 27 years is Jeff, our sons are Ben and Adam, 23 years old, our daughter Katrina, 19 years old, and our daughter Meng, 15 years old, thus = jvbakm, which is how I have always signed the Christmas gift tags and so long ago we were named the ja-ba-kum family.

We invite you to follow us on this journey. We know this will be the trip of a lifetime for the Paulson family. Our lives were changed forever when our youngest daughter came home almost eleven years ago. It is time for us to all travel to China, embrace Meng's birth country and experience together the wonders of this ancient and now very modern culture.

We can't wait!!