It was a sleepless night in Hong Kong.... our beautiful, modern hotel where we can drink the water in the restaurant is right beside the airport. Convenient? Oh yes! Quiet? Oh, NO! Seriously, instead of counting sheep, I was counting airplanes!
Jeff had been up many hours getting our trip for home planned. We agreed that the goal was to get home... we were not interested in spending a second night in Hong Kong. I had Tempurpedic on the brain. And that is what we did.
The morning started early and quite stressful... the airline was supposed to have emailed us our new itinerary overnight... that did not happen. Cupcake thought she left her DS on the train... that did not happen either, Dad had pulled it out of her bag and was charging it. Sweet Cheeks did not want to wake up... had to wake her up. All too soon, we were off to the aiport and hoping things were going to go as planned and we would have seats together.... we did!
The first leg of our flight was 12 hours from Hong Kong to San Fran... I thought we would get some sleep. Nope, not meant to be. Cupcake did not sleep until two hours before landing and through blekfast, I mean breakfast. Sweet Cheeks slept maybe four hours total. She was too busy having diarrhea, bless her little heart. We had finally reached the point of "whatever keeps the kids quiet" mode. We were trying to survive the flight and the day. The other passengers were people we would never see again. So, Sweet Cheeks loved sitting on the tray table. She also enjoyed the COMPLIMENTARY magazine in the seatback, which she proceeded to shred, one page at a time. With kid #1, that would have never happened. Kid #2, it was a different story... whatever was keeping her quiet. Did I mention that the last 5 hours of the flight were really rough and turbulent too?!? Which totally did not sit well with Cupcake. Please, let's just make it to the US.
And we did where we got to welcome the newest American citizen to our family. The US Customs went off without a hitch and soon enough, we were collecting our luggage, restocking clothes and diapers for Sweet Cheeks for the rest of the trip home, rechecking our luggage, getting rescreened through security, having another diaper blowout but we were in the US, no more squatty potties and hot water to wash my hands. Life was good!
We got reconnected with everyone, our next flight was for five hours and was scheduled on time. Plan to be home by midnight was still good. Our next leg was uneventful and we all managed to get some sleep. The kids pretty much slept the whole way which was great. Everything was going well until we landed. It was quite rough, there was snow on the ground and we were getting very close to it. It seems, the steering broke on the plane as we landed! So, there we sat on the runway, waiting for a tow. It took a little while to make it to the jetway but once we were there, we knew we only had one more flight! This is where we separated from Nana. After a quick hug and a tearful goodbye, there was Sub*ay for dinner and we were on the last plane and headed south! Everything was on time and we finally made it to our final destination.
Our welcome home party consisted of Uncle and Aunt Lisa. It was great to be home! We took a few quick pics and were quickly off to get our bags and head to the car. There lurked the dreaded carseat and we were not too sure how Sweet Cheeks would respond. She was totally fine! I sat in the back with her, fed her a few snacks and she was good to go, only crying out a few times.
We were greeted at home with balloons and Welcome Home signs from our great friends. It was great seeing that. I really wish we could have had the welcome at the airport with friends and family but at this stage, we were just glad to be home... FINALLY! And as a family of FOUR!!!!
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