Where is Miah?

Miah Fu Ni (just trying out her new name) is currently residing in Taizhou city. Taizhou City is situated in the Jiangsu Province, near the mouth of the Yangtze River and a four-hour drive from Shanghai. Taizhou belongs to the sub-tropical monsoon climate region. It covers a continental area of 9411 square kilometers, a sea area of 80,000 square kilometers, with 745 kilometers of coastline and a population of 5.36 million.

Today we have been waiting 18 days for our travel approval to arrive. Last week we heard from our agency that all referrals and TA's were being held due to the swine flu concern, but yesterday new referrals came out and many families did receive their travel approvals....so maybe things are looking up.

From what we understand, we will fly from Vancouver to Beijing to Nanjing. Nanjing is the capital city of Jiangsu and Miah will be brought to us at the Civil Affairs building in Nanjing. It is there that Miah Fu Ni will become officially ours! We will probably spend about 4 days in Nanjing and fly back to Beijing for 10 days to complete more paperwork for the Canadian government....and then back to Vancouver!!!


Fingers crossed that our TA will arrive soon!!! (If you click on the photos you can enlarge them)