The checking in process went VERY smoothly. When the ticket agent asked to see "The Brown Envelope", I kept praying... PLEASE DON'T OPEN IT!!! She didn't, just copied some info from the first page that was facing out. We got our tickets, checked our bags, went through security (they put the Baby Tylenol in a separate bag and sealed it), then headed up to our gate. Almost Everyone was wearing a mask... at least the locals. We saw a group of very important looking people going down the escalator--all wearing masks. We took a picture, but they were so far away and it's pretty small, so I don't know how it will look on here... but I'll probably post it anyway.
We were able to pre-board since we had a little guy. The flight attendants were very attentive to our us and told us to let them know if they could do anything for us during the flight. Several of them congratulated us on our adoption and commented on how cute Guille is. (They didn't HAVE to tell ME that!! ;) For take off and landing he munched on cereal and drank juice so his ears didn't bother him. During the flight he was soooooo good. He MIGHT have cried a total of 2 minutes on the 14 hour flight, and that wasn't all at one time. He only took two 2-hour naps so I thought he'd be quite grumpy, but he was a happy camper and a real trooper. He liked looking out the window with his daddy.
We left Hong Kong at 12:45 pm Thursday and arrived in Chicago around 2:30 pm Thursday. We squished that 14 hour flight into less than 2 hours! Cool, huh? Well, it LOOKED like 2 hours on the itinerary due to crossing the international date line going 'backwards' in time.
After a 5 hour layover in Chicago, we caught our last plane for Pittsburgh. It was only about an hour flight and we arrived around 9:30 pm. We picked up our luggage and looked for the courtesy phone to call the hotel where we had reservations. We couldn't find any information for that hotel and couldn't find the paper we wrote the info on before leaving for China. So we decided to bite the bullet and get a cab. Well, one of the airport transportation-security guys was talking to the cabbie, asked us what hotel we were staying in, then HE called the hotel and had them come pick us up. Saved us the cab fare!! Thanks bud!
By the time we got to the hotel we all put on our jammies and crashed! We woke up around 6:00 (well, 2 of them slept until 6:00... I was awake from 3-5 then got woken up at 6:00! Grr! haha) We ate breakfast at the hotel, went back to the room to get Guille set up in his car seat. It was much easier to adjust the straps to him there in the room than it would have been to try to do it in a dark car at the airport when we were all soooo tired.
Friday, May 15
We got home around 9:30, unloaded the car, headed off to the college to get things settled for the insurance, meet a few people, drop Guillermo off in his office for a few hours while Guille and I hit the grocery stores to get a few things that we were in need of. Guille was pretty clingy around the house but was checking things out as we would go into each room. After a nap and a quick supper we went back to the college for the baccalaureate service. Home and to bed!
OOOOOOooooooooh, how could I forget to add this?!?!? He POOPED!!! All on his own! No suppository! And he did it in the hotel in Hong Kong so we didn't have to mess with it in the airport, let alone on the plane! Thank you SOO much for all your prayers!
First plane ride
The observers
Hey, I got my Daddy!
A tender moment
The most comfortable sleep on the plane... at least in "Steerage"!
Hey, this car seat is almost as big as the seats on the plane!
My "Welcome Home" poster
My first meal at home. (I think my high chair is too big, don't you?)
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