Our Family Blog – Mike, Louanne, Nadia, Amelie, & Dani
Hello all. My sister Tahni has launched her photography business and I encourage you to check out her site.
She is doing an Anthropologie gift card giveaway this month that you can see here
She has such a great eye for capturing great moments. Here is one of my favorite photo sessions she has done.
Love you Tahni!
After 25.5 hours of travel we made it home in one piece with all of our luggage! Amelie did really well on all 3 flights. We had our own row from Guangzhou to Korea and she just played around and ate. Then for the long flight from Korea to Los Angeles we were split between 2 rows. Mike and Nadia sat in front of Amelie and I. Amelie did great and probably slept about 6 of the 11 hour flight. Nadia didn’t do so well on that flight because she couldn’t get comfortable to sleep, but she did enjoy watching “Beauty and the Beast” about 5 times and playing Memory on the personal TV screen she had.
We were blessed to connect with a family at the airport in Guangzhou who gave us an entire bottle of Advil! Mike and I doped ourselves up and survived the trip. (Mike is waiting at the doctor now to have his ear checked out while the girls take a nap)
Then we landed in LA and got through immigration and collected our bags. It took a while to get through immigration and then we had to move to another terminal and get checked in for the DFW flight. It was on time and we were glad not to have to wait a long time. Amelie was being really cute with Mike and giving him kisses and everything, so that was very sweet. You wouldn’t have believed it was the same kid from 12 days prior.
We got home and Nadia was manic to see our house again and wanted to show everything to Amelie at one time. Amelie was plain overwhelmed and wandering around. We had to back Nadia off and then got them a very late dinner and into bed.
We are so happy to be home and grateful for everyone’s love and support and prayers through this trip.
We leave for the airport in 90 minutes. We have a 3 hour flight to Korea, then a 2 hour layover, then a 11 hour flight to LAX, then a 3 hour layover. Then a 2.5 hour flight to DFW.
That is a lot of travel time and we are grateful for your prayers. Specifically:
Thanks for all your support during this adventure.
Amelie having pizza for the first time – she loved it!
This is going to be the fastest typed post in the East because I am tired and we need to get to bed because we leave the hotel at 10:30 am to head for home. We have almost everything packed except the toys and the toiletries so I am feeling like I will sleep well tonight. Praying that Amelie sleeps all night! We got up and headed down to breakfast and then decided we better head to the island to finish our shopping while I was feeling good from all the medicine. We headed to “Jade’s Place” to get a chop with Amelie’s name and “Michaels Place” to pick up some gifts I had on my list that I didn’t get on Tuesday. We saw a family from our travel group (the Nielands) and posed for a quick photo since they were headed to Hong Kong in the afternoon.
We had lunch at the Deli at the White Swan and then went back across the bridge to our hotel so Amelie could have a nap. At 3:45 her and I headed down to the lobby to wait for Grace to show up with the children’s visas and our brown envelopes for immigration in America. After that the Hameloths said they were going to get Pizza Hut so we decided to have a pizza party (reminded me of Nanchang with our 1st travel group). That sounded great to us and we went down to the club level to eat. Here is Logan and the girls playing “ring around the rosie”.
And here is a photo of us with the Hameloths. We traveled the paperwork and matching road together so it was very fun to get to spend our week in Guangzhou together getting to know them in person.
