"The family that you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have" ~Ring Lardner
Sunday, September 19, 2010
We have our son!!!
Sorry we haven't posted since we left for China. Let's see...my Dad took us to the Charleston airport on Thursday morning at 0630. We flew Delta from Chas to Atl and Atl to JFK. Our flights were great...smooth and on time. We took a taxi from the JFK airport to the Doubletree. We had a lot of traffic going to the hotel..but after checking in we had a great dinner at Ruby Foos. The kids went to bed relatively early. On Friday morning, we had breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, I walked to the Toys R US and M&M store. I bought some chocolate for the nannies and orphanage director. I also bought some small things for Baishi and some candy for the kids. We checked in at JFK at 1245..our flight was scheduled to take off at 2:55 pm. We had lunch after checking in and our flight left JFK on time. We were in row 60 on a huge airplane...a boeing 777 300. I did fairly well on the flight after take off and the kids did great. Li-Li and Maura Genet slept for about 7 hours and Bella slept about 8. I slept about 2 hours and George only slept about an hour. George and I wore Ted hose on the long flight (the nurse coming out in me). George even said, "I hate to admit this, but these socks actually feel good." We had about a 2 hour layover in Hong Kong. George and I had coffee from Starbucks during the wait while the kids colored. We had a short 40 minute flight to Guangzhou. Unfortunately, I forgot to arrange transportation from the airport to the White Swan Hotel so we had to wait about 30 minutes to have a "larger" car pick us up. Our friend, Yu Chuan, had arrived at the airport an hour earlier. We got to the hotel at midnight. Our room is great...we have a 2 bedroom suite. It has 2 1/2 baths and overlooks the Pearl River. Yu Chuan has a single room that also overlooks the river. We meet Helen, our lady that will escort us to all of our appointments, in the lobby tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm. We will then meet our son! :)
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Great to hear you arrived safely. Congrats on meeting your new son, looking forward to details!
Not sure how I missed this...CONGRATULATIONS!!! I am so excited to see you guys united. He is absolutely precious!! Hugs, stacy
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