Waiting for TA and Travel Plans

I'm here to tell ya, this is going to be one interesting trip ! I'm already going nuts trying to decide everything about our trip and our TA hasn't even arrived yet ;-) We should receive our TA in a couple of weeks if they arrive in the usual amount of time. Since the Olympics are right around the corner and we've already been to Beijing twice, we are opting to fly into Shanghai this time. Shanghai is also alot closer to Hangzhou where we will be adopting Paul Lei. Since our adoption agency's travel agency (BOIT) doesn't have a representative in Shanghai, we had to hire a guide. As luck would have it, we have been blessed to find a private guide who knows our son's orphanage director. We found this person through another family who has adopted from our son's orphanage in 2005. Long story short, we are hiring this Chinese guide to come to Shanghai and take us siteseeing, then he will ride with us by bus to Taizhou (4 hour trip to our sons hometown and orphanage). We will be able to site see in Taizhou and visit our son at the orphanage. Then, the orphanage director has suggested that we ride by bus with her and our new son up to Hangzhou (4hour drive) to carry out the adoption at the civil affairs bureau. Never did I imagine we would get to meet our son at his orphanage and ride to the main city with him and the director. We are really excited that we are going to have such a personal experience spending time with Paul and his caregivers.