Waiting on FedEx

Well, the wife went to work, took the baby to get dropped off, and I'm waiting for the Fedex person. The agency said it would be here today, but they didn't give me the tracking number. If its not here by lunch I will probably login to work and look at the system and find out where it is myself, the few privileges of working for the company. After all the paperwork, we thought we were pretty much done, but now I get these "Travel packets" and I see that we have lots of paperwork to do again. It seems to mostly be easy stuff, print and sign this form type papers and get them notarized. That we can handle, still, just a bunch of little things that we might miss or forget. Hopefully I will have the LOA and the I800 stuff sent off today, and CCAI will get it all tomorrow. I'd like to get all the other papers signed and sent off to them as well, but I'm not sure that we will have time. Most of the additional paperwork does not appear to be as time sensitive, says we have "5-7 days to complete". That will keep us busy for the rest of the week, but after that we will be back to "waiting", which each stage puts us closer to Mei-mei, and each stage we feel sicker/more excited than the previous stage. The agency has said 9-12 weeks to travel. 9 weeks out would be ~October 13th, and 12 weeks would be ~November 3rd-ish. The problem with October is they have some events that go on, where the Consulate is closed. Oct 1-5 is the Autumn Festival, and then Columbus day is the 12th, and at the end of the month there is a HUGE trade show, the China Mining and Coal Expo to be exact, who would want to miss that, its huge. The trade show is at the end of the month, and apparently agencies don't like to schedule things during that timeframe because of prices going up for everything. So, its kind of a toss up, even if our paperwork is done really quickly, we may not have a slot to fall into for October, at this point we are shooting for early November. We will be in Disney Oct 22-29, so that should be a good way to spend the last few days/weeks with the baby boy before we head off toe China. Well, the Fedex guy just dropped off the LOA, I'm going to open this thing and see what the big deal is, :)