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Home Sweet Home

July 24th, 2008

We are home!!

We left the hospital at 830 am for the airport. Security was much tighter now then when we arrived a month earlier. There were men with machine guns in full battle armor watching everyone! It was kinda scary to see them. I was glad to get through security and on my way. The plane left Qingdao at 1010am and flew to Seoul Korea. It was a short, uneventful flight:)

We had LONG layover in Korea and were hungry. There were no fast food places-only Korean resturants. Jeff found something he could eat, while Dave and I settled for Dunkin Dough nuts–nutritious, I know.

We left Korea at 605pm headed straight for Atlanta, USA. The flight was 14 hours. Thankfully, the flight attendent moved us into the bulk head seats, where Jeff had a lot more leg room. It made it easy for him to get up and down so he could stretch his legs. Jeff slept a few hours, I could not sleep. My legs kept aching–not sure why, but I could not sleep more than 30 minutes. I did well until we had 6 hours left. Jeff was sleeping, the plane was dark and I started to cry–deep sobbing cry. I was so ready to be home and the experiences from the past 40 days began to overwhelm me. We were almost home–30 minutes from Atlanta when we got the call…Atlanta airport was closed !!!!!!!!! I cried again. We had to divert to Tennessee. We landed, refueled and thankfully the airport reopened. We took off an hour later. We landed in Atlanta about 1 hour and and half late. We made it through the customs and everything fairly well. The only problem was that they gave us a wheelchair, but no one to push it. That made it tough on us. Jeff is not good at driving one of those. It was more of a hassle than a help, but Jeff’s legs were like rubber. We were anxious to get out and so we were very short tempered and tired. Finally about 2 hours after we landed, we were on the way home!!! Dad and Kim came to pick us up. It was wonderful to see them.

We spent the night at my parents so they could watch the girls one more day. Jeff and I slept late and even after waking us we were useless and napped often. Brian came to pick us up here and will spend the night in our beds tonight!!! Jeff’s parents are coming over tomorrow. Hopefully some of the jet lag will go away by then. So far it is not as bad as everyone said it would be–it is not good, but not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

Jeff is working on the video now–it will be posted later today!!!

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