First Leg Completed

Well so far, so excellently good!  Yesterday, Sunday, Judy and Bernie came over to the house.  It was nice to actually sit down and start talking about what will be in store.  All this planning and prepping and not much time set aside to just sit back and say Holy Crap!  am i really really adopting another child?  Am i ready?  Is she ready to have a family?  How will we manage this all?  okay so that's not the enjoyable part, so scratch that.  flash forward instead to putting Dylan in her stroller and walking Emma down to the bus stop.  Wave bye bye to Big Sister Emma!!!!   cuddling, snuggling, holding those teeny tiny hands.  okay yep, that's the enjoyable

The trip this morning started out beautifully.  We got there early early (4:30am!!!!)  and got THE best skycap, Al.  He instantly informed us that Delta's policy was to charge ($100) for checked in strollers when there wasn't a child traveling.  It's considered luggage.  but, he told us not to worry he'd talk to the supervisor and worst case, we can take it to the gate and check it in there for free.  He whisked off all four bags and the stroller, commenting on the enormous weight of one of the bags.  Came back a 10 minutes later, (ahhh the beauty of arriving early, we were completely at ease and not feeling rushed) he apologized for the delay, told us he was able to get the stroller checked at no charge.  when he weighted the  luggage, and noted that one was 57 lbs, we tried and tried to move items to the smaller, under weight bags.  Knowing we were on an adoption trip, commenting, Oh you're adopting a girl -- all the pink in one suitcase being the obvious giveaway, he finally declared, okay that's fine.  i see that you're trying.  he took the extra stuff put it back in the big suitcase and said, don't worry about it!  this on top of the fact that we weren't charged for the 2 extra suitcases.  According to Delta 2nd checked bags would be $100 each, but we weren't charged for this.  Hey, not going to raise a flag and say, oh wait is this supposed to be free?  and to make things even sweeter, he said he checked our bags all the way thru to China.  last adoption trip we had to get our bags at LAX, schlep them thru that massive airport and re check them at the international gate.  that sucked big time!  They say it gets easier with the next child,  i guess they were right!

so that adventure behind us, we're now chilling out in chilly Detroit waiting for our next flight.  THE BIG FLIGHT.  the one that takes us to my daughter's homeland.  Beijing, here we come.

One last note, I'm tired.  so I'm taking an author's privilege and NOT proof reading right now.  so if my post seemed to make a little less sense than they should, just remember...  i was up at 2:50am and am feeling rather punchy right now.