Journey to Our Daughter Anna: Sequoia National Park

Introducing our daughter......

Name: Sun Huai Ping (孙怀平), now Anna M. D.
Birthday: 02/01/2006 (2006年2月1日)
Located: Hangzhou Children's Welfare Institute (浙江省杭州儿童福利院)
http://journeytomyanna.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-got-daughter_5054.html

Timeline
05/05/2008: Applied with Adoption Agency #1
08/25/2008: Switched to Adoption Agency #2
09/17/2008: Referral! - Connected with little Anna
09/18/2008: LOI; 09/23/2008: PA; 10/23/2008: I-800A approved;
10/31/2008: DTC; 11/07/2008: LID!!!
02/09/2009: LOA!!!!!; 03/16/2009: TA ;
03/23/2009: Gotcha Day; 04/01/2009: CA; 04/03/2009: Home

China Adoption Acronyms:
LID - Log in Date; DTC - Dossier to China
SN - special needs; NSN - non special needs
LOI - Letter of Intent (used in the SN process)
LOA - Letter of Acceptance, the document that allows you to officially accept a referral;
TA - Travel Approval; CA -Consulate Appointment

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Sequoia National Park - Day1

Day 1: General Sherman Tree, Buttress Tree, Moro Rock , and Tunnel Log.

我们刚刚结束一周的国家公园旅行，这三个国家公园是红杉树，帝王谷和优山美地。我们都被这些公园的美景所折服，同时我们也非常享受在公园里的远足旅行。安娜的表现令人惊叹，她同我们一起徒步爬山三次，第一次去了头口爬瀑布（10公里），第二次去了迷死梯瀑布（16公里），第三次跋涉了姜木耳山路，爬上了世界闻明的半球石（27 公里），来回用了十三个小时。

We took a week long trip to three national parks, Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite. We enjoyed the beautiful scenes and the challenging hikes. Anna did such an amazing job hiking three long trails with us. These three trails are Tokopah falls (6 miles), misty falls (10 miles) and John Muir trail to the world famous Half Dome (17 miles) which took 13 hours.