We're Home!!

24 days away from home is way too many.  We had a good time in China, the best ones of course were - Gotcha Day for Molly, and Adoption Days for both kids.  Funny that even though Zach lived with us for a year, things worked out that we officially adopted Molly first.

Yesterday was a LONG day.  We left our hotel in Hong Kong about 7:30 AM Friday morning (or 7:30 PM Thursday night here).  Our plane took off at 10:25 and the journey home began.  Our flight from HK to Detroit was about 15 hours.  Molly did great, napping some, although never sleeping real well, even after I dosed her with Benadryl, she only did 3 hours.  Because of the US time, they kept the lights off in the plane most of our journey to allow people to sleep.  We were on one of the more modern planes (wish we had been on a modern one on the way to China,  but what can you do??) and at our seats were power outlets and USB outlets to charge our electronics.  We all also had a personal TV screen where we could pick movies, TV episodes, or even play games.  That was nice since Zach could watch Disney , while Mike picked his 'shoot em up" shows and I could do the chick flicks. 

Molly likes her food and it was touch and go at the end to see if her snacks would last all the way home.  They did.  She was pretty great through the flight, not much crying or fussing on that long plane ride, although the way she started out on the puddle jumper we took from Detroit home, we were afraid she would cry through that whole flight.  She didn't though.  By the time we got home, she was ready to be free on the floor and out of the confines of our laps or the car seat. 

We got through the airport to immigration in Detroit at  2:15, at which time Zach and Molly became US citizens.

We got to our home airport about 4:20 PM on Friday, and home by 5:30 - about 22 hours after we left the hotel.

We came home to the big boys at home, they made us biscuits and gravy for dinner, had signs up around the house welcoming us home, and big hugs for all.

We were exhausted, since none of us slept much on the plane, with the world travelers in bed by 7 PM.  Everyone slept through the night, except Molly who woke every 2 hours, but we were able to put her back to sleep  each time.  Molly is up from her nap now, so I will post more later!