Well we finally made it back to Lexington on Wednesday the 23rd about 9:30 am, which as it turns out was a day later than planned. We left Moscow without any trouble on Tuesday. We had been flying along without any problems and according to the onboard map showing our progress we were just about over Iceland. The captain came on and said we were going to have to be rerouted to Glasgow, Scotland due to an ill passenger that needed to be evaluated. So he turned the big bird around and flew back to Scotland which took about 90 minutes. Once we landed the paramedics came onboard and checked out this lady and decided she needed to be taken off the plane. Evidently she had had a seizure earlier. We couldn't really hear all the details as she was sitting in the first row of buisness class and we were way back in coach. So long story short, we sat on the ground in Glasgow for about 2 1/2 hours before we took back off. We weren't allowed to get off the plane the entire time. I've always wanted to go to Scotland, but not that way. We couldn't even see out the windows since we were in the middle row of the plane. The bad part was I couldn't call my mom to let her know we would be late because there was not any cell coverage. I even asked several other Americans if they had any cell service and no one did. So, we ended up landing in Atlanta at 8:50 pm--5 hours late. Of course we had missed the connecting flight to Lexington and there wasn't another one until the next day. So, they sent us to a Comfort Inn, which of course we had to pay for. The first room they put us in had no heat so at midnight we had to change rooms. We didn't make it to bed until after 1 am Atlanta time, 9 am Moscow time. A VERY long day.
However, after all my griping, I must go on and on and on about how well my new child did on this plane trip. I can't get over how good she was. She litterally didn't fuss the ENTIRE time. She slept the first 2 hours of the flight, then woke up in such a good moood. She played and played and never cried. We had lucked out and got in the middle of the plane with an empty seat between us, so she could move around and back and forth. She did exhaust her dear old mom wanting to be up and down and all over, but she sure was good. We fed her some lunch and then she slept about the last 4 hours of the flight. She didn't even cry on descent!!!
It was soooooo good to finally be home with our little one. My mom and sister met us at the airport with balloons. As predicted, my dear mother was so happy to see Haylie she cried. They had come out the night before, along with some other dear friends to meet us but of couse we weren't there. When we finally made it back to the house, Marcia & Mary Ann had decorated the front door, mailbox, and garage doors with welcome home posters--it was soo0 nice to finally be home. I'll post some pictures of our homecoming later; Haylie is up now at 3am--she's still on Russia time
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Congratulations : ) It such a wonderful feeling to be home isn't it.
Hi! This message is from Shannon Sampson-- I'm a friend of Karen K's from the allergy/asthma clinic (you might remember that we made the connection about knowing Karen when you mentioned you were adopting.) Karen passed along your blog address and I have been checking periodically to see how things are progressing. I'm thrilled to see that your precious daughter has arrived home! She is beautiful!! Congratulations!
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