We're Home

After an incredibly long April 1st - we're home! Our day began at 4:30 am at the White Swan hotel in Guangzhou, China. We then flew to Shanghai and awaited our next leg of the journey - fly to Atlanta. The flight went well, both girls slept almost the entire flight. Natalee is feeling better but not taking in enough fluids which concerns me....Kyle is feeling worse :(

Arrived at Atlanta airport and had another series of "hoops to jump through", fortunately we met another adoptive family on our flight and so we navigated this maze together. We had to go through customs, then wait in a small room for over an hour to receive the immigration stamp on Megan's visa/passport - not a fun experience...then claim our luggage and re-check our luggage for our final flight home...through another security check and finally to our gate for our flight to GR. We were able to call our parents which was great...both girls enjoyed talking to the grandparents who are eager to see us all. Our flight was been delayed by about an hour - ugh - we just want to get home. We had to go to three different gates - of course none of them near the other - before the airline finally decided which gate to use. Natalee still hasn't been drinking much and although she says she feels okay - I don't think she does. Megan has been a trooper.

After being in Atlanta for about 5 hours we finally took off and had a good flight to GR. We were the last plane to arrive for the day and we ended up being the last people in the airport. Thank you to all our family who came to see us and welcome us home!

Megan walked in the house like she'd been here already, took her shoes off and stared wandering around. She found all the toys in the basement and is quite excited to play. We found a cooler of food waiting for us on our porch - thank you neighbors - and both our Mom' helped stock the fridge & pantry with some essentials. Bedtime came easily for Natalee but Megan had a harder time. I think she finally fell asleep somewhere around 3am. Kyle & I are sleeping the in the girls room tonight to help ease the transition.

1pm on April 2nd and both girls are still sleeping - about 12 hours now. I decide we need eat so we enjoy the spaghetti dinner from our neighbors - it was so good. My parents brought over some more cough medicine as both girls and Kyle still are dealing with congestion & coughs. The girls played for awhile and then back to bed around 8pm. Megan is now dealing with diareaha and vomiting, Nat has vomited a couple of times and Kyle has a fever of 102. It's going to be a long few days of recovery for this group!

Up at midnight for a snack and the girls & I watched a video then back to bed....Megan & I were up at 4am for more food and play time...Nat up at 5....Kyle up at 6....now all three are napping and I'm wide awake (it's 7:20am). This jet lag and illness stuff is nuts!! I'm just hoping we can get on the other side quickly!

I'll try to post some photos soon, but Megan needs me right now so I'll sign off.