July 25,2007 Last Day

July 25,2007

Our last day in Guangzhou as I stated was a good one. I'm posting pictures from that day with this last post. We rose at 4:00am to get ready to leave. We left for the airport at 5:30. Gracie wanted no part of getting up that early but we finally got her going. It was rush rush as we all went to get our tickets and go through security. There were 4 families total leaving this am. It was us, the Dufresnes, the Petrocelli's and Devon and her kids. We boarded without difficulty and we were off for Tokyo. The flight was 4 hours long. The kids did great. Hannah watched the movie and Gracie played for a while and slept. In Tokyo we had to rush through security again and we all grabbed McDonalds and quickly ate before boarding. We were only able to get 3 seats together but were able to get a girl to trade so Tim was then sitting with us. There were a group of Japanese students traveling to the US and 2 of them were next to Tim. They were about 11 years old. Very sweet. The one next to him rested her head on his shoulder and later flopped her leg over his while she was sleeping. We were cracking up. Once again Hannah and Gracie did great. They slept the last 4 hours of the 11 hour flight. The food was not so good but all in all we survived. We realized after we had boarded that we had not seen Devon and her girls get on so we assume she had missed the flight. We're not sure what happened to them. We feel terrible about this. The Dufresnes with baby katie and the Petrocelli's with Kiara and us were so happy to be back home to the US. Hannah was ecstatic, She hugged her daddy and exclaimed "we're home!" We deplaned and made our way through the airport to the area our families would be waiting. It was great to see all of you there. Mom, Danielle, Drew, Doreen and the kids, our Caleb and then to see Shari that was quite a surprise. Gracie was very shy and quiet for the arrival. Once home she opened up more and had fun. What a wonderful surprise to see what Doreen and Scott and done with the kids room. A complete makeover. I'll take pictures and post later. We are so happy to be home and thank the Lord for our safe and uneventful travel and such wonderful kids. We again know that we are so blessed and loved. We are definately the lucky ones to have been able to bring home another beautiful little one from China.