Could Be Worse

Well it has been a stressful day and we got some bad news although it could be much worse. Our trip has been delayed by a week because our visa appointment was scheduled on the only day they do medical appointments for older children. The medical appointment has to be done before the boys' visas can be issued so we needed a new visa appointment. Our agency has been working hard the last 24 hours to get things rescheduled and find us plane tickets that aren't exorbitantly expensive. Right after lunch, it looked like the only plane tickets available were going to be over $1600 per person and that just about did me in. Then with some hunting, tickets were found that are basically the same price as the tickets would have been this week. We are coming into the tourist season for China which is why the prices are going up. On this trip we will be flying into Hong Kong and staying one night, then flying up to Zhengzhou, Henan, then down to Guangzhou, and then back up to Beijing and home.

I didn't realize how disappointed Isaiah was about the trip postponement until this evening. I told him we were going to be able to visit the Shaolin Temples which is considered to be the birthplace of martial arts and kung fu. We also get to see a gong fu show and I thought Isaiah would be really excited since he loves doing martial arts at Chinese school. Isaiah acted like he didn't really care and I got upset at his attitude and sent him to his room. He came down later and was really upset and told me the reason he wasn't excited about the Shaolin Temples was because he really just wanted to go get his brothers and he didn't want to postpone that by visiting places first. He was really sad that he has to wait another week before he will meet his brothers. Isaiah cheered up quite a bit when I told him that our whole family will be going to the Shaolin Temples after we have Levi and Jacob. The kids were practicing their martial arts moves after we watched some YouTube videos about the temple.

There are always bumps and delays when you adopt and we are thankful this bump is a relatively minor one. I have three suitcases packed and almost everything ready to go so I will use this extra week to work on my garden. We could use some fresh vegetables this summer especially since we will be feeding four children.