May 27, 2004 - Got up about 3:30 am and got ready to go to the airport, going to China! The night before we watched Fantasia win American Idol as we packed our bags. We left for the aiport about 5:00 am and I felt like I was going to throw up the whole way there. My sister took us (she's coming with us this time, I can't wait!) and she and Ben were talking on the way there, to my ears all I heard was "wahh waaahhh, wahh waaahhhh" like on Charlie Brown. :-) I had never flown on a jet before and here I was going halfway around the world! I'm getting that feeling in the pit of my stomach as I remember it. Now even though I've done it before, I know I'm going to have that same "I'm going to throw up" feeling on the way to the airport again.
So for my first flights, we flew from our local airport to O'Hare, then to LAX, then to Shanghai, then to Beijing! I think it took about 28 hours start to finish, something like that.
We only have a few pictures of the trip over (have to change that next time!) but here's one of me and my mother-in-law at O'Hare, then a view out our plane window somewhere between Chicago and LAX.
And back to the present day, here's a picture of Lindsey I took yesterday:
2 comments:
Cute picture of your daughter! Boy, for your first flight that must have been a doozie (sp)?!
Eileen,
Been following the slow-down. I'd be on the floor kicking too. It's awful...especially when you know there are soooo many kids who need families. Wish I could wave a magic wand and register them all!
I can't believe it's been two years for you. Seems like just a couple weeks ago we were on the Nemo group. ;o) Those were the days!
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