The Countdown has started.

Today we did all of our last minute errands. Jimmy picked up the money from the bank, finished his route (except for one stop we need to make on the way to Whidbey on Sunday morning) and is now on his way home. I finished putting our paperwork together, reconfirmed our flights, and had our last call from our agency before we leave. I have most of the packing done and am working my way through the last of the laundry. Tomorrow is our last full day at home and it will be a busy one. On Sunday we will spend the day with family and then on Monday afternoon, we will make our way to the Seattle airport. We take off for San Francisco at 7:00 pm, spend a few hours there before getting on our 14 hour flight to Hong Kong at midnight. Then from Hong Kong, we have a 50 minute flight to Guangzhou (formally Canton). Somewhere in there we will cross the international dateline, which skips us ahead a day and we arrive in China at 11 in the morning on March 30. We will be met by our agency guide, Wendy at the airport, who will then take us to our hotel, the White Swan hotel. We get to meet the other couples in our travel group that night and more importantly, we get to meet our daughter the next day at 1:00 pm (which would be 9:00 pm for those of you on the west coast).

5 more days.