Back up a day/night to January 13th. Well of course that's when we put the car seat in the car. After all we'll need it in 17 days when we get back home! Nothing like waiting until the last minute. It was the first of many things Joe would be putting together for our little guy! I'm not really sure how late we stayed up this night but I know it was late.
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| Heading to this little boy who's face we've been staring at since September! We are beyond ready!!!! |
We
were up and moving, well at least I was, around 230am. Gotta have a good hour
to let those drugs kick in before ANY travel. Joe's parents came and got
us around 3:50am to head to the airport. Not a lot of people at the
airport that early. It did take me a while to figure out that I had to
slide/scan our passports through the right area at check in. I wish I had
thought to take pictures of this part of our trip. It was a very
tearfully emotional moment checking in our bags when she confirmed we were going
to Beijing CHINA.. YES PLEASE my baby boy is waiting for us!
Somehow I got selected to bypass the normal TSA check point. I was
able to go through the old school medal detector with my shoes on I believe.
I still had to wait for Joe though because he had to go through the
regular line, which had a line. That was nice! Finally we were able to
board our early ass flight to Detroit, 5:40AM. I would have preferred the
later, 1 hour lay over flight, but since it was January in Michigan who knows
what kind of weather we'd get. Of course it was fine that day, just cold!
Love my little 25 cent garage sale purse. And the blanket Paula made for Nian from yarn my Grandma had. I really hated washing that blanket, it smelled like Grandma... But I wasn't sure how Nian would be with it so a wash it got. - we later learned he wasn't a big blanket fan, at least not while we were in China. I'm glad I had it with me on the plane it kept me warm.
Well we made it to Detroit in about 2 mins. Lol really it was what maybe 30 mins I think it took longer to board, and unload than the whole flight. We headed to Max and Erma's for breakfast. Good place, I sure miss the one out at Woodland that was a nice restaurant. We made quick work of "looking" around the airport then found our gate to sit.... and wait.... 4 more hours......... Well to one of us the time flew!
We
didn't realize the plane sitting on the other side of the gangway was our
plane. We thought we would see this big plane pull up to the gate.
Uh no. It was a big plane just not as big as we were thinking we
would have. All aboard!!!!! We had fellow group/soon to be family members
seated behind us. It was nice to meet part of group before getting over
there.
Now
there are 1 thing I ALWAYS look for when I get on a plane, such is my traveling
life. Do I have a bag in the seat back pocket???? Oh yeah, and hand me
yours too while we're at it. One never knows when I might need them!
I was
very excited about the movie screen in front of me, until I tried it and it
didn't work. Ugh this was going to be a long flight if they couldn't get
it to work. Thank God the flight attendant was able to reset it. Shew....
That would have seriously sucked if it was broke. I really liked that you
could track the flight, and of course didn't think to take a picture of it
until we were into the flight. Next trip! ;-)
So of course I was up the WHOLE flight, except maybe a few hours. UGH... I should have took another pill half way through the flight cuz those last 4 hours were rough. Jessica behind me was feeling the same way. Huh for one of us the time passed quicker! Imagine that!!!!!
And so starts our trip down memory lane. I'll be mixing in new with the old. Hope you enjoy the journey memories as much as I do.
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