Getting Ready and Excited!!!!

     Wow, its been crazy around here!!!  Since I have been off of work, I have been busily organizing and cleaning and packing and packing!!! 

     Packing has been quite a chore.  Its wild packing for 6 people in two different climates for two weeks without knowing if we can utilize the laundry service.  

     My 12 yr daughter says "Mom, this isnt very many clothes, what are we going to do?"  So, I told her that we would have to take enough underwear and socks to last us our 12 days and re-use our other outfits!  Fun fun!

    We just finished packing up the van with all of the luggage and holy cow, it looks like we will be gone for 2 weeks!  Its crazy how much stuff you need to take care of a 2 yr old who comes with nothing.  Now, I am sure that I over packed because I always do.  But I look at it this way, as long as we pass through customs and immigration and airlines, we are doing pretty good!!!
 

    I have finally gotten a minute to sit down and blog some.  Right now, my husband is playing his "game" he is a gamer...LOVE IT...NO I DONT!!!!!  LOL   Anyway, I have a free minute to just sit down and relax..I am not sure I even know what that word means anymore!  But, guess what, I am going to learn it real  quick on our 14 hr flight to Beijing!!!  CANT WAIT!

  We are flying out of St Louis tomorrow, Thursday morning, bright and early!!  We are flying into Beijing and we are doing some sight seeing/touring!  That will be so much fun!  We are going to The Great Wall of China and all it looks like to me is " a whole lot of stairs!"  My friend Kelly, whom I workout with every morning and sometimes again in the afternoon, told me that while I think she is trying to kill me, that she is just getting me ready for "all of those stairs!!"  I dont think so Kelly, but thanks!!!! 

     Just to let you all know that I will be blogging everyday that we will be there and posting pictures!!!!!!!!  We have lots of friends and family that have told us that they will be stalking us!!!  I know how that is, we had friends go in November to get their little girl in China and we refreshed our computer all day long, hoping for an update and/or a picture!!!!! 
     Again, thank you everyone for all of your prayers and support!  We will need it!!!!

Mindy