Again apologies for posting so late. After three plane rides, leaving late out of Guangzhou, racing to get on our Hong Kong flight for 13 hours and then again lagging through customs, racing to get on our Chicago flight and finally getting into Manchester airport at 8:15pm on Saturday night, it goes without saying, we are glad to be home!
Of course, mom smuggled in a Chinese apple through customs and I was the one that got caught with it. While she was getting the luggage, I was standing by our carry on's and the cutest little beagle dog came up to us, and start scratching at mom's carry on bag (her new large coach bag of course!). The agricultural officer asked if I had any food in the bag. I said of course, bagels, oreos, skittles, potato chips and continued to rattle off our bag of goodies. She asked if we had any fruit or meats, of course not, why would I have any healthy food! Then, she stuck her hand in and pulled out an apple! Big No No! You can't bring fruit into the US because of bugs and disease. So, they made a big mark on our customs forms.
After getting our luggage, we had to go to immigration, which is now a new process. We had to give our paperwork along with everyone else and then take a seat. TAKE A SEAT, I THOUGHT, we have another flight to make. One by one they did everyone's paperwork and we saw them off, about 45 minutes later they finally called my name and let us through.
We then needed to put our luggage through the customs xray machine and go half way around the airport to the domestic flights, which luckily for us was running late due to weather or we would have missed the flight. It was a short 1 hour and 45 minutes later and we touched down in Manchester.
We were greeted by friends and family and were so happy to be home, until we learned not all of our luggage made it. So, we needed to fill out a form to have it delivered.
We got home about 9:30pm or so and stayed up for a few hours. We all had trouble sleeping that night.
On Sunday, Fawn and Skylar, Barbara, Leslie and Aniah came over to see the baby. The rest of us looked horrible as we didn't have much sleep and our makeup was in our lost luggage.
We had a good night's sleep Sunday night and my clock re-set. We went and visited some friends on Sunday for a few hours and are now getting back to life.
Today is Tuesday, Olivia is at school. I am officially back at work and mom is at work as well.
Boy is it good to be home!
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Welcome Home! It sounded like quite a trip home, but you finally made it. I hope things are going well for all of you.
Barbara said that Lexi is so "cute". Let me know if you ever want to make a visit to our new office in Burlington. It is right behind Wayside Commons. Would love to see you and the girls!
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