Kate and Brennan fell asleep on the hour flight to Hong Kong. Thank goodness Brennan woke up to help me with our carry on luggage. We walked to the Continental counter to get our boarding passes for the next sections of our flight. Our first flight was with Dragonair (although Continental works with them to schedule the Guangzhou to Hong Kong portion). The Continental counter was closed which meant no boarding passes until 8:00 AM. Since we didn't have any boarding passes, we couldn't go to the departure gates which have the lounges that we could have rented to rest and sleep in. We were stuck sleeping in the arrivals which had one bench and one chair in each area. Not very comfortable but we made the best of it! There was one nice securtiy guard that checked on us several times and even gave us some cookies.
We were happy to finally get our boarding passes in the morning so we could go to departures and eat some breakfast! The arrivals area didn't have any restaurants either. Our flight left on time and 16 hours later we arrived in Newark. Both kids did great on the trip but slept at different times, which means I didn't get much sleep. It took us over two hours to clear customs and recheck our baggage, etc. It's a good thing we had a five hour layover! We ate some lunch and then Kate fell asleep in her stroller again. She woke up in time for the last flight and got to see the plane take off and land. She liked it!
When we arrived in Raleigh there were several great friends to greet us. Kate was snuggly and sweet and Brennan was excited to see some of his buddies! Dave LOVED his Father's Day gift!
Our first day at home has been LAZY!!! Brennan didn't sleep much last night but took a nine hour nap today! Poor kid! I have a feeling he's not going to sleep much tonight either. We don't have much planned so he'll have a chance to get back on schedule. Kate seems to be more on schedule and so do I, although we both took a three hour nap today.
Kate has enjoyed looking around her new home. She's spent most of her day taking pictures, cutting with scissors, and playing with her dolls. She's scared of Zamboni (our dog) and wants to be in the same room with me at all times so I can protect her from our giant scary mutt :-). She did touch him today and talked to him a little. Hopefully each day will get better since I plan on driving the kids and Zamboni to Wisconsin next week!
It's nice to have access to our blog again and loved reading everything Wendy posted! She was so fabulous to do that every day while we were gone! I'm also happy to have Facebook again and plan on going on it later today!
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| Shayli and Kate with Peter Leigh took some better photos of all our kids that I will post later. |
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| Getting some exercise before the long trip home! |
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| Kenny and the kids |
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| Looking for fish in the Pearl River |
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| Our last meal in China was from the Deli shop. |
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| Sleeping at the Hong Kong airport. |
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| First airplane ride! |
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| Keeping entertanined on the long airplane ride- doing hair and accessorizing. |
The greeting at the RDU Airport
10:00 PM June 19th. Thanks Everyone!!!
We are happy to be home!!!
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| Father's Day 2011 |
| How Brennan spent his day... a nine hour nap! |
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| How Kate spent her day... |
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