Five Hockey games and a Travel Meeting.....

....whew what a weekend....there was the usual craziness around hockey games & practices that this time of year brings - yes between them the boys had 5 games from Friday at 6 to Sunday at 3 - not to mention a practice for Riley - we actually got off lucky because their weekend practices were cancelled on Saturday -

But the other big event was that we had our travel meeting for China....it is now less than 4 weeks before we go so it was time to meet with people who have done this before and get all of our questions answered and checklists in order. Most important news from that meeting - we will meet Olivia on November 12th.....our itinerary looks like this:

November 7th we leave Toronto to Beijing - arrive November 8th (we decided to leave a little earlier than the group so that we can recover from the jet lag)

November 11th we leave Beijing for Nanning

Meet Olivia November 12th

Stay in Nanning until November 17th

Back to Beijing on the 17th where we will get a chance to visit The Great Wall, Forbidden City & Summer Palace as well as other unscheduled places that we can decide when we get there

Home on the 23rd

Our travel group is a mix of first time parents and families with 2, 3, and 4 children already - it will be a good sized group with sisters, aunts and grandparents in addition to parents all travelling and based on all the chatter and laughter at the travel meeting I expect that we will have lots of fun on the trip.

Well, I am off to starting working through the list of things that need to be done before we go....

and for those of you wondering - 2 wins, 1 tie and 2 losses.