Well I'm working really hard trying to make plans. Do you know how hard it is to find a hotel room for 6 people? It's very hard. After searching the internet and calling hotels all over Taipei and only coming up with 2 hotels with a family suite to accomodate 6 people at the tune of about $400 a night, We had to make other plans. Eric and I couldn't put the boys in another room, which is what the hotels wanted us to do is buy two rooms. We have decided to take my brother Leo with us to stay in a room with the boys and we will be staying at a cheaper hotel for less than $200 a night for two rooms. The name of the hotel is The Feeling. It's very nice and highly recommended from other budget concience travelers. WE are all excited and happy my brother will get to join us also. So the hotel is booked and the airline tickets are purchased. Joseph will be flying into Tampa on the evening of June 19th at about 11PM and we will board a plane at 6 AM on the 20th from Tampa and start our journey. It's such a blessing that all of us will be together to welcome Rayanna into our family. I think this is an experience the boys will remember forever and of course Rebecka is so happy to be visiting her orphange again. I wonder if they have ever had an adopted child return to visit. The next 5 weeks will hopefully go by fast, even though there is alot to prepare. They still have not figured out what they will do about her passport, but the orphange apparantly thinks they will get it straightened out before we travel without having to do the POA. Hopefully that will be the case.
Stephanie will be returning to Taiwan on June 10th but she plans on spending as much time with us as she can while we are in Taiwan. She lives in the same city so will be close by and she already has many places she wants to take us. It will be a bittersweet departure from Taiwan this time. Although we will be leaving Taiwan with our new daughter, we will also be saying goodbye to Stephanie for a very long time. We hope we will see her again someday, but are sure we will keep in contact with her. She has become like a daughter to us over this past year and we will forever love her.
So we are in the final countdown, what a journey this has been and the best is yet to come!
Love,
Jaclyn
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Hi Jaclyn,
Just and FYI.
Have you called Rido Hotel?
http://www.rido.com.tw/room_en.php?room_id=150
They don't have suites, but their larger rooms are quite roomy and you can add a single bed for free in the larger rooms if you have kids. I think you can add a single bed in Bali Ambience (4800 NT per night), European Royalty (3200NT per night) and perhaps European Nobles (3000NT per night). We stayed at European Royalty.
It's also a 5 minute walk to AIT and across the street from Daan Park. You can reserve by emailing them too.
I am so happy and wish I can come with you! Ask you brother in law about his new friend from the soccer game!
It'll all come together and when it does, it's going to be awesome.
Jaclyn, I just caught up on your blog and read the great news!! Congratulations! That is just wonderful and 5 weeks will fly by with all the planning you have to do. So happy that Ryanna will be meeting her forever family and coming home! A big congrats to your family!
-Shana
www.giroux5.blogspot.com
Did you look up the Hostels? Or what? I am VERY interested in anything you find hon... and I need to either call you or shoot you an email. I need to ask you something...
Talk to you later.... time is ticking!!!!
We stayed at The Feeling and liked it. Nothing fancy but very nice and the breakfast each AM was super! Also, the staff was so nice to us. Plus, it's in walking distance to everything that you need-- parks, the bus, grocery store, shopping, McDonald's and Starbucks. :) Have a super trip!
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