Happy for you, Tim. Safe trip..... Pat Stone ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Stowell" <timsetn@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:58 PM Subject: [NYMADISO] Get ready, get set, and .. > we go to get our son! > > > > In less than 24 hours we depart on our trip to Taiwan. > > > > He is now 8 years old, having had his birthday on January 4th. His given > name at birth is Yu-Hsuan (U-Swan). We'll be adding Samuel to this name. > > > > I'll go to work Thursday morning and our daughter will be at school to > give > my wife time to do last minute packing. Our daughter, 10, will be going > with us. She is excited to get a brother and keeps telling folks we are > going to China. No dear, not China, Taiwan. > > > > We leave Atlanta later Thursday afternoon. We arrive in Taiwan Saturday > evening, Chattanooga time, after a multi hour layover in Seattle. > > > > In Taipei, we'll take the bullet train south to Tainan where the orphanage > is. Our son lives in a foster home some distance from the orphanage in > the > foothills of the central mountain range. After Gotcha Day, we'll take the > bullet train north to Taipei to do the American side of the process which > extends over two days and a weekend. > > > > You can follow our journey via the blog set up for this adoption - > http://taiwanpromise.blogspot.com/ > > > > Tim Stowell > > web host > > NYGenWeb - Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Sullivan counties > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYMADISO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message