We have tickets!

It is starting to feel very real. After 4 days of intense scrutiny and research, we now have our tickets booked to go to China. We will spend the whole time in the city of GuangZhou, which is near Hong Kong. So, buying tickets should be easy, right? Straightforward round-trip. But, nothing is ever easy when it comes to China.

First, the holiday season made for extremely expensive tickets and lots of sold-out flights. Second, we learned that it is not wise to try and take our child, who will be traveling on a Chinese passport, through Taiwan. This eliminated one of our easiest routes.

After making a large grid of options, we determined that it would be best to buy two one way tickets for all of us. This allowed us to use cheap EVA air flights to get to China, and slightly more expensive Hainan flights through Beijing on another airline to get home. Chinese airlines all the way!

We have middle seats not together on the flights, but hopefully that can get worked out. Most importantly, we have tickets, we have Visas, we have cute sun hats. We are ready for a baby!