We have our travel dates!!! We will be leaving Baltimore on Wed., Aug. 30, flying through Chicago to Beijing, which we will reach on Aug. 31. If all goes as planned, we will be meeting Mia Xiaohua in Xian on September 3rd, her birthday. We will go to from Xian to Guangzhou to do paperwork and a medical check-up for Mia at the US consulate there. We will fly back out of Hong Kong on Wed., Sept. 13, and come back through Chicago into Baltimore that same day. (-: