We're Home!!!

OK, So... The last post was from Thursday daytime, China time --

Thurs night we all ate together at the local restaurant. We had an interesting added entry -- Pigeon - complete with head. Surprisingly the kids liked it the best.

OK so we left the hotel around 3pm on Friday, China time (so like 2 am Friday morning PA time) -- went to the airport for our 6pm flight. Our boarding passes said we would begin boarding at 7:50pm! As it turns out we waited in the airport till around 11pm! Delay was due to bad weather -- guessing the plane was coming from somewhere with bad weather, the Beijing and Guangzhou had OK weather. At anyrate, we arived in Beijing at 0200, had to contact the hotel to come pick us up - finally got a room with a king size bed 'cause they do not have cribs and went to sleep around 0330 -- so that we could be up and ready to get the 0800 shuttle.

The rest of our flights were relatively normal -- although it was a 3 hour flight followed by a 12 hour flight. We arived in Dulles around 2pm Sat -- then we had to wait, first for our stroller - which we never received, then for customs (like about an hour), then to leave the baggage area, then for the hotel that we parked our car to come pick us up... only to get to the car and realize that the hotel didn't clear out the car (not that I expected them to clean off the car, but at least allow us to get to the car)- so that there was about 4 feet of snow - you all know, 3 feet deep. Basically, I couldn't even see the license plate. So, thankfully the hotel had a shovel and Alicia and Lilly waited in the lobby with our luggage and Joe cleared out the car. Eventually we made it home, around 8pm Sat night (total travel time ~29 hours)

Lilly was great the whole time -- she slept well on the plane, she didn't fuss or cry or anything. Thankfully the plane was not all that full and we were able to have an extra seat in between us!

Now that we are home, the first few days Lilly stayed on China time -- yup, awake at 0100 till around 0700 the first day and 0030 till around 0800 the next day -- I think that she is currently on the right track, but we will see. Last night she slept from about 7pm till 0500 (alot better!)

We have some more photos, but they are not on this computer yet, so I'll have to post them another day...