Friday, February 9, 2007

And speaking of the travel packet...

...we have been in contact with several CAWLI families with the same LID as us, as well as a few that are a day or two earlier or later than ours. Apparently, one of the families asked that a separate newsgroup be set up for those of use with late-October LIDs. There are 34 families, many of whom will be in our travel group.

Someone posed the question last night about traveling to Beijing a day early. This is something that K and I talked about a while ago. It gets you an extra day of sightseeing, as well as one extra day to recuperate from the jet lag before getting a potentially cranky baby handed over to you! The downside of this plan is that you don't travel with your group, which we think is an important thing to do.

Anyway, a few of us in the newsgroup mentioned that we might be interested, so I emailed the agency today just to get an idea of the extra cost, which it turns out, may only be about $100-$150 per person. So, I think this is something that we would seriously consider. There was another CAWLI family that traveled early last summer and they spent the time at a silk factory and at the Beijing zoo.

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