Booking - updated with picture links

Update: I am adding a few links that one of my travel mates was kind enough to forward to me (Thanks May!).

Check out these pictures - they are all breathtakingly beautiful. I believe that all pics were taken in Guangxi province (where we will be spending about 7 days) and in the cities of Guilin and Yangshuo. We will be traveling to Guilin and then taking the Li River Cruise which stops in Yangshuo.

Note the little boy in one picture eating rice out of some sort of cloth. Chloe was looking at these with me and I said "Chloe, look he's eating cotton candy!" Of course he isn't. Then I thought wow, if we could just get our kids to eat rice-on-the-go instead of Candy, we would be all set! I hope you enjoy these, a friend described the rice fields as completely mesmerizing and that is so true.

http://www.pbase.com/jongky/yangshuo_2006

http://www.pbase.com/mgpimages/guangxi_china

Well, things are finally beginning to seem real...finally. I have booked the international flights so part of this whole booking thing is done. We leave on 11/28 and return on 12/16. The tours, hotels and in-country flights won't be booked until tomorrow but it looks like the following:

11/28 leave for Beijing
11/29 arrive in Beijing around 4 pm
11/30 Tour – Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, lunch at a local’s house – See an Acrobatic show that night
12/1 - Tour – Great Wall and the Summer Palace (my personal favorites)
12/2 – fly to Nanning (go shopping for baby stuff)
12/3 – Get Gianna
12/4 – adoption stuff, hanging out
12/5 – adoption stuff, hanging out
12/6 – take the train or bus to Guilin – stay in Guilin that night
12/7 – do the Li River Cruise end up in Yuangshou (sic) – stay here that night and weather permitting, watch an outdoor night show at the banks of the Li river (performers are 500 local farmers)
12/8 – free day – hang out – (those without babies can go mountain biking to Sun and Moon mountain)
12/9 – Fly to Guangzhou (some confusion here - not sure if we are going back to Nanning and then flying out or flying out direct from Yuangshou)
12/10 – hang out – do prep-paperwork for US consulate
12/11 – Consulate appointment – with guides (parents don’t go but must hang out at hotel in case of issues)
12/12 – Consulate Swearing in Ceremony
12/13 – train to Hong Kong
12/14 – tour hong kong – Victorias Peak, Stanley Market
12/15 – more touring of HK or just hang out
12/16 - head back to the States

Ciao for now