We are Home

We are home and Ariana is settling in with her brothers. As I write this we have been awake 31 hours. It was kind of a do-over on Friday since we left early Friday morning and arrived Friday morning here. We just skipped the whole night/sleeping part & got to do Friday twice.

Ariana was unbelievably good the entire trip. No crying. No crying on the 4.5 hour first leg of the trip, no crying on the 10+ hours on the second leg, and no crying during the 1.5 hours at immigrations and then and then 2 hours to get home with the layover and flight from Seattle to Spokane. She only cried for a bit while we strapped her in a car seat (they don't have them in China) and dug out our car at the Spokane airport. I wasn't sure we were going to get it free. We dug, and pushed, and dug, and pushed. Parking for 3 weeks outside during the worst snow storms for some time was not great. They also had plowed along behind the car, so even that had a huge burm. We made it out. Somebody was looking out for us today.

Ariana played, chortled, slept, watched some TV, ate, and was just amazing. Being stuck in a small area with a toddler is never easy. Doing it for hours on end in an International plane seat is a test of courage.

We got off really easy.

Of course, after we sleep a bit, more pictures to follow. Family is visiting and as excited as we are. Thank you to all of the family and friends that have been following our trip! Your emails and comments were fantastic when so far from home. It was all I could do to keep up. It's nice to be able to take a bit of normal with you on such an adventure. We will keep on posting as we get settled.