WE ARE HOME WITH GRACE!

Ni Hao...I mean...Hello Everyone,

We are finally home with Grace. It was a great journey through China to bring her home. First I would like to say Xie Xie Ni (thank you) to everyone for their thoughts and prayers...I have faith that it made all the difference.

Now the story of the "Trip Home."

Grace had a hard time sleeping the night before we left Guangzhou. She was up at least two times. We changed her diaper and fed her but she was hard to calm down. Maybe she realized something. Anyway, Phuong and I did not get much sleep.
We packed the night before so the morning was organized for the most part. We bought some sandwiches from the deli by The White Swan hotel the night before so that was our fuel for later.

We said good bye to many of our friends the night before and early the next morning. They are truly great people. Wade, Alice, Scott, Jennifer, The Downey's, Todd and Winona, etc...you are all wonderful people and the journey we shared together was great because all of you were there. We love you all and will never forget you and will always stay in touch!

Grace did better in the morning. We did not wake her up until about 6:30 am because we were scheduled to leave the hotel about 6:50 am.
I checked out the night before so all we needed to do was drop the keys off then go to the bus.

Our reps in Guangzhou were great. They were very well organized and friendly so the trip was a pleasant one. The f;light to Hong Kong was short which made it pleasant. Grace travels well as long as she is clean and fed.

Once in Hong Kong, it was sad to say good bye to Joe and Sue who we met on the first left of our journey at LAX. You guys are great!

The flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles was llloonnggg. Grace did well. We got bulk head seats with a baby bassinet for her to sleep in. By the way...Cathay Pacific is a great airlines.
For the first 5 hours or so however, she would only sleep on my lap. We finally got her to sleep in the bassinet for a few ours. We had to wake her up when the captain flashed the seat belt sign because of some choppy air during the last two hours. Grace was not happy and neither were we. She was sleeping so well up until that point.

Sorry for the long post...I will rap this up :)

Finally we made it to LA. It was a long line after long line until we reached our bags. Then one more line...then we met our friends who came to pick us up...Thanks Dick and Mandy!
Again, a BIG THANK YOU to everyone!
I will still be posting to this blog for some time. Keep an eye out for photos. We are going to develop some film tomorrow. I took about 8 rolls plus video!

God Bless,
Tim, Phuong and Grace