TA (Travel Assignment) ARRIVED!!!!!!

Mary at our agency called and said our TA arrived! They will request a US Embassy date and we’ll find out what date it is tomorrow! The seasonal trade fairs in Guangzhou are HUGH. The hotel and air fare prices double to triple. The crowds are crushing, compounding a country with overwhelming population during calm times. Needless to say, if someone really wanted to go the agency would try, but we already discussed that possibility and we are not interested. The agency would try to squeeze the trip in prior to the trade fair or we would have to wait until after. Todd and I started calculating the timing and couldn’t even see how the October dates were even feasible.