Still waiting for our Travel Approval (TA)

Today marks 1 week into our wait for our Travel Approval from China, that is if our agency actually delivered it. They haven't been very good about getting things delivered quickly. I am working on sending off our Visa Applications, those things are too confusing and have to be hand delivered to the Chinese consulate in Washington, D.C.I hope our friends the Lords will be kind enough to deliver them for us. They were the ones who hand delivered our dossier to the consulate to be authenticated in June.
We heard some more about Nikki yesterday from the lady who visited her in the orphanage. She says she is tiny-probably around 18 pounds and has lots of hair.
She also filled us in on some travel tips.
We are getting so excited to go get out little ladybug! Pray that we get that travel approval soon. If we don't get it soon we will have to wait until mid Feb to go get her because of the Chinese New Year.

Tomorrow our Article 5 will be picked up and (hopefully) delivered to the Chinese Government. Then we wait anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks for our Travel approval. When that arrives we can make an appointment with the US embassy in China and find airline tickets. We are starting to get excited!