What a Week!

Just a warning... this is going to be a long one!

So, last Saturday my sister was here and we took advantage of the opportunity to go and do the major shopping needed for our trip. We stripped the OTC medicine department of Walmart! I think we got just about everything we needed. We got a couple of other things, too... care package stuff to send to Owen and some clothes we needed for the trip. After that we headed to Target to pick up some other stuff... more clothes, a few things we couldn't get before. After that we were almost beat and headed out for some lunch. Nice juicy cheeseburgers revived us and we headed to Costco to get some other stuff. After that the car was full and we had to head home!
On Sunday we went to church and then had a wonderful brunch at the U of M Holiday Inn. We were stuffed and could barely stay awake to watch the UT game that was in progress when we got home. I did a bunch of knitting on Owen's blanket during the UT & Memphis games, which was great.
Monday was soo busy at work that I almost forgot that I was waiting on a call from CCAI! But, by Tuesday I was super anxious for them to call and was sooo glad to find out that our Gotcha Day will be May 5th!
From that point on I started working furiously on trying to get us booked on the "perfect" flights to China. On Friday I finally heard back from the "alternate" travel agency and they had really good flights for us.
At one point I had been trying to use our AmEx points to get a better deal on flights, but on Friday afternoon the return flights that we wanted started to disappear! So, we ended up booking the flights that we wanted with the travel agent and we'll use our AmEx points to get discounts on our Beijing hotel.
So, from Tuesday on we were preparing all we could do to get get ready to leave on 4/29.
Oh, OK, we had to watch UT get whooped on Thursday night!
On Friday we took Cackie to Michael's Mom's and then headed to the Honda dealer to buy 2 company cars for him. (The gas savings alone will be a HUGE help!) Then we went out to dinner and watched the Tigers on to the ELITE EIGHT!
On Saturday we got a bunch of painting done in the new kids room. Michael was able to get the ceiling patched and painted and then he was able to get the accent wall painted with the base coat. I worked on the dressers that needed to be painted and basically got all the painting done.
Now we're off to bed.... gotta rest up for tomorrow's work!
I have a bunch of pics to add, I'll just have to add them tomorrow!