And we are here!!!

Well, we are here!!!! Sorry it has taken a bit  to post. It took a couple days to get our computers and internet set-up and then yesterday we were "ting dian" (which means no power) ALL day.

But, after packing up a room that looked something like this

into LOTS (10 checked and 10 carry ons to be exact) of these....

 we were set!

We said our good-byes all weekend long, and on Sunday morning we packed up 2 SUV's and headed to the airport.

Here we are waiting  to check our bags. It took almost an hour. We almost missed our plane. We could feel your prayers as we made it on (we were flying stand-by) and had 6 seats all together!

(these are just our carry-ons--we were quite a sight to be seen going through security)

When we got on the plane we did a lot of this....

eating and watching movies.....

a little bit of this......

yes, Reid actually slept like that for a while.

and after being hurled through the sky in a tin can for 16 hours, we made it to our country!

We had to gather ALL our luggage and recheck it in Shanghai. We kind of felt like we were foreigners on parade as we walked through the airport. Matt, Kadie, Everett, and Reid were pushing a cart FULL of luggage, and Ry was being pulled in the stroller. We had more stuff with us that day than most Chinese people would ever travel with. 

Here we are in the Shanghai airport

We then caught another 3 hour flight to our city. It was not documented because the main camerawoman proceeded to fall into a coma-like state before the plane took off and the back-up cameraman was very busy trying to console 3 WAY overtired, starving children. You can probably picture the plane ride pretty accurately in your head. 

And then we landed in our new city! Home!

Some friends picked us up at the airport and helped us get all our stuff up to our apartment. 

our super fun welcome HOME sign!

Here are the kids with all our luggage in our new apartment! 

(a post with pics of apartment coming soon!)

We are so happy to be here and are so thankful to all of you who helped us get here! We are excited to start this new adventure!!