We are a family that have been expecting our second child for over four years now. We started the adoption process in the spring of 2006, submitted our paperwork to China in September of 2006 and have been waiting patiently for a child since. We finally we got our referral and plan to have the process completed and travel to China this coming spring!

Monday, February 28, 2011

Feeling Minnesota


Woke up at 3:15 AM! Got all our stuff gathered, turned off the water, shut some breakers, heard knock on the door... Huh? Knock on the door at 3:45am?

It was our neighbors and Olivia's best friend who got up to say good by and see us off. What an awesome surprise. I know Olivia will miss her terribly over the next 3 weeks.
We used a car service to the airport. He picked us up in a mafia style car and took quite the circuitous route but since no one is out at 4am in Pittsburgh, we made it here in 1/2 hour. Quite the record to get to the airport.

Since we are flying business we got to breeze through the check in and security. I did have an embarrassing moment when I kept setting off the metal detector. I had done what I have gotten pissed at so many other people for doing. I forgot I had my cell phone in my pocket. In my defense, I have on cargo pants and lots of pockets. I also have lots of stuff in all my pockets, so I forgot. It did take me 4 tries to get through because I first thought it was my belt, then a clip on a money belt, then my Flip and finally the cell phone. Wish I would have found it before the strip search though.

Now we are just waiting for our journey to begin.

Note: my watch is apparently 1 hour off. Haven't worn it in some time.


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