Have Visas, Will Travel...(Still don't know when!)

Well, we continue to await the arrival of our Travel Approval, so that we can book our flights and hotel rooms. In the meantime, last Tuesday our Passports were delivered back to us by Fed. Ex. with our Chinese Visas inside. We now officially have permission to enter China. I continue to be surprised and quite frustrated with how long every step seems to take for us, keeping in mind we are a family who submitted our dossier in March of 2008, our dossier had already been reviewed, and we had all the necessary updates, etc. Our Visas are just one more example. The Visa application indicates it takes 3-4 days to be processed. Because these must be hand-delivered to the Chinese Consulate, and since the nearest one is in NYC, we used a courier service that our agency recommended we use. Everyone else I know (think hundreds of online "friends") took 7-14 days to get theirs back. Ours...30 days. Now, I realize Chinese New Year may have impacted us by 5 working days, but still! We specifically overnighted our Passports and Visa applications to the courier service, on Feb. 8th (CNY was the 14th), so technically, there was plenty of time for them to be processed BEFORE CNY.
I realize once we have our son, Aaron, in our arms, none of the individual frustrations during this time of waiting will matter at all anymore - just as my 3 months of bedrest waiting for Donovan now seem like no big deal (though they did at the time!). However, as we continue to wait for our Travel Approval (and have been packed and ready to go for over two weeks now,) these little things that are keeping us from our son...and keeping our son in an orphanage in China, are really on my mind.
Hoping our Travel Approval will come this week!