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Willy The Londoner:
Hopefully you will be sorted out ok by now.
As I said on the phone yesterday 'Where there's a Will there's a Way.' My assistance is open to all regulars who get stuck here.
If all else fails - Well, hey, whats up with December here?
The main problem is trying to find cheap flights at short notice - that is unlikely in any part of the World.
Willy
JustJim:
Where there is a will there is a way.... :)
Just wanted everyone to know we got our tickets. Have to go to tea now so I will write more later.
JustJim:
I want to thank everyone who offered help. What you don't see here is that I WeChatted with Robert and he advised me to PM some members here and I PMed Willie, Gerry and Patrick because all three of them have ties to this area and all three of them got back to me very quickly with offers of help.
Willie gave me his phone number and I called him. He offered to help us to purchase tickets in Hong Kong and go there by way of his house. He also told me about a site where we could purchase tickets by transferring money through the Bank of CHina.
Mei had given up prior to this and was going to let me handle things but when I told her of my plans to fly out of Hong Kong she decided to give it another shot.
You see she is pretty determined that her family should see us off at Guanzhou. I know her sister would feel slighted if she didn't get to be one of the last to see us in CHina.
So after letting me muck around for another hour she got on the phone and started talking to a couple of people and then she was online on the baidu.com site and next thing I know she is sending our info to someone and getting excited, and talking about Korea, and on and on.
Well I guess she finally made the right connection and actually found a travel agency right here in Daliang because it wasn't too long after that she was headed to the bank to transfer money. And soon after that we had our confirmation.
Willie is right of course about cheap flights and short notice. We knew that going in but Mei wants Kelly to be there before the start of the school year.
We had to pay over $4000 for three one way tickets, and we fly out on the 19th, with a very short transfer in Korea, and the whole flight is short also, which I like.
The 19th is a little later than I had hoped but it's okay.
That will give Kelly two whole weeks to get adjusted physically to the time change.
Needless to say my wife was very pleased with herself and was telling me what a good wife she is.... Like I don't tell her that
enough already... :)
Anyways, thanks guys for all the help. I went back to the beginning of this thread and I realized I was as lost then as I am now. I needed you all then and I still do now. Quite the bookends, I thought. Soon we will be back in the states and trying to negotiate a quite different life for all of us. I hope I will be better at finding my way through that one... ;D
Jim
Willy The Londoner:
Pleased to hear everything went well. I learned one thing fast and that is the women here are quite proficient at getting things done - to their satisfaction!
Now you have a bit of time to spare you will be welcome here. As I said I am the boss of this home! Well until my wife gets home that is!
Willy
Pineau:
hope you make it through customs smoothly. Shouldn't be a problem. But since I had pissed off someone at USCIS they interrogated us in customs for hours and we missed our connection and had to sleep on the benches at McDonalds. Its' quite an adventure Jim. You now have a whole new set of problems. "the never ending story"
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