Hey everyone... sorry for not posting for a few days. I'm going to blame the jet lag for my procrastination...
Anyways, we made it home!! Our total travel time was over 24 hours from when we left our hotel to when we arrived back into Columbus, OH. Thankfully, our daughters both did great coming home... our 14 hour flight from Hong Kong to Chicago went about as well as could be imagined, with the minor disappointments of turbulence for the first 2 hours (i.e. no food/drink service for a while), and also not having the personal entertainment consoles in each of the chairs like we had going over... I know... minor minor issues. We ended up going thru customs, which was remarkably EASY! We handed the customs official our sealed envelope from the US consulate, and were ushered over to a separate room, where another nice official came, stamped the papers a couple of times, and congratulated us on her citizenship. After that, we had to go back through security, and then, we ended up at the nice playground in O'Hare for about 3 hours. Overall, it was an exhausting, but uneventful day.
We finally brought Mia home around 7:30 pm and she was somewhat overwhelmed with the jet lag, meeting new family members (brothers, grandparents), and from seeing her new home. She was ecstatic, but also exhausted.
Now we're onto the part of the adoption called real life :) We're going to be keeping her home this next week during Thanksgiving holiday, and then getting her enrolled in school starting next week Monday... so it should be fun!
Our 747 getting prepped for our flight home
Mia after landing in Chicago (and becoming a US Citizen)
Three of our kids enjoying cake pops from Starbucks this morning
My mother and Mia after we arrived into the Columbus airport
Mommy and Mia relaxing together at home
Our new daughter :)
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