Preparing for our flight to Guangzhou

** Adoption countdown: 6 days until Pam, Terry and Matthew return home **

By TERRY R. CASSREINO

ZHENGZHOU, China (Friday, Dec. 12, 2008, 7:15 a.m.) – This likely will be our last post from Zhengzhou as Pam, Matthew and I prepare this morning for our flight to Guangzhou, our last stop on our China adoption trip.

We must meet Echo, our escort from Holt International Children’s Services, in the lobby of our hotel by 8:45 a.m. for the trip to the Zhengzhou airport. Our flight leaves at 10:50 a.m. today.

Then it’s back to completing more paperwork as we get Mathew’s visa, allowing him to enter the United States on Thursday, Dec.18, and automatically become as U.S. citizen.

We hope to finally have Internet service in our room in Guangzhou sand will file an update once we arrive – which means you’ll have a post and as story or two when you get up Friday morning in the United States.

Before we leave Zhengzhou, I hope you enjoy this nice photo f the city park we visited on Thursday. We found it to be a peaceful, relaxing park that offered many opportunities for beautiful photos.

Thanks for reading and following our journey. Please check back Friday morning for the latest news and developments – includes Pam’s grasshopper-on-a-stick.

Copyright 2008 by Terry R. Cassreino. All rights reserved.