Get ready, get set, and we go to get our son!
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In less than 16 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