Still Lots to do Before We Travel....

Flights and hotel are done - we are flying Eva Air the night before Thanksgiving on a night-time flight and will arrive into Taipei on November 27th very early in the morning. We are all getting our vaccines on Friday and we have a Skype meeting set up with Billi on November 11th!!!!! We are so excited to see her live and not in just a picture here and there!!! I am hoping to set up another Skype before we leave or may ask the orphanage if we can meet with her for a playdate a day in advance as I am really worried about her acclimating to us. Trying to find a housesitter / dogsitter and just basically running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I really would like Billi to retain her native language, so I spoke to a woman who lives in my area that is from Taiwan!!! She is going to come and help my husband and I learn some Mandarin before we go and I am also working out a schedule for her to come and hang out with Billi a couple of times a week and speak to her in Mandarin after she is home  for a while - not sure of logistics yet, but would love it if it works out. My friend also created a Mandarin series for kids to learn Mandarin that you can see on the link in upper right hand corner - I can't tell you how cool this is, what a great tool for us to have - my son loves it!! I am getting things buttoned up at work as well, so that things will run smoothly while I am gone. I plan on working a very minimal amount of time when I am ready to go back and just take things one day at a time.