Waiting for Travel Authorization - any day now

We are just waiting on the final Travel Authorization from China and we should be getting that any day now.   Once we get the "TA" , it will get busy trying to request the day that we can get an appointment with the American Consulate because that will determine when we actually travel to China and that will allow us to book the airlines and hotels.  Our agency has a travel coordinator who will help us with all the international travel and the china in country travel ....it should be a trains and planes adventure!   We have all had our vaccinations and are now working on the final Typhoid vaccine......unfortunately, Conner has had to deal with some side effects from that vaccine - fever and headache so I feel bad about that - but the Doctor says that the actual virus would be 100x worse!    Conner has been a trooper through all the vaccines and so I have probably let him watch a little too much TV while he recuperates....so much that we are both getting addicted to Phineas and Pherb!  Maybe we can find the Chinese version of the Disney channel when we are there.  Tommy has the suitcases laid out and is waiting for me to start packing....those of you that know me...know that the clothes won't be packed until the day before we leave....I just work better under pressure...which drives him crazy but we have learned each others traveling patterns after 10 years of marriage.