Article 5 baby!!!

Josh at Small World emailed me this morning with the news that our DS230 was signed off on and the paperwork was picked up and is on it's way to the CCAA as of today. He said it usually takes about three weeks from this point before we see our travel approval (TA) which puts it the week of Jan 20th. If we get it then we could be traveling the weekend of Jan 29th, which gets us there and back before CNY. That is if all goes well in Beijing and there are no further delays or slow downs in our TA. It could even come sooner, which would mean possibly travel the weekend of Jan 22nd, which would be great, but, I really don't expect it. A lot also depends on the available consulate appointment dates. The day we leave has to be about a week before our consulate appointment, so, we will just have to wait and see when that will end up being.