We made it !!
Its definately going to take a few days to get adjusted to our new home. The flight was incredibly long & tiring, Tyler was a real trooper though !! He did great & never cried at all…he played & slept a lot …he was the star of our section & everyone commented on what a great kid he had been for the long flight. We left at 10:05 our time Thursday & arrived in Shanghai at 2:00p.m on Friday I didnt sleep any on the plane either..so I felt like a zombie ..well I still do…lol…we were not to leave shanghai until 9:20 p.m & had a long day of sitting in the airport…since we couldnt check in until half an hr before the flight we had to stay in the terminal where there is little of nothing other than a trillion little chinese people rushing around.
When we got to check in at 7:30, guess what ..the reservation that we had & the paperwork to prove it was not registered in their system..so essentially we had no tickets for the flight..i might add the ONLY flight out of Shanghai to Qingdao..i argued with the non english speaking airline employees until i finally said how much are the dang tickets ? and re bought them..the next better thing that happend was as we got to Shanghai getting out luggage…one was missing…oh yes, the one that has ALL of Tylers food & diapers & since one piece was to heavy we had to take clothes out of that one to put in tylers bag for weight ..so half of our clothes..it was found,,.in ATLANTA..they didnt get it on the plane…but this morning first thing the wonderful translators here called & got the information & the bag should be here today & they bought our airfare from qingdao back to shanghai for our departure trip..so i didnt have to stress anymore,.,.lol..believe me we were both STRESSED last night…so this morning tyler wakes us up at 4 am oh yeah time to play & because he was to have blood work first thing he couldnt have anything to drink or eat til after they came…now seeing that we dont have our FOOD luggage that made that easy…my sis & I were starving to death too…so i found a community kitchen & as they showed me around I told them we would be going to buy food but needed to walk to something this morning as we all needed to eat pretty bad…so they said there is nothing like that close by….great…one dad that is here with his daughter getting treatment was making the most fabulous looking scrambled eggs & toast..we had 2 pks of easy mac & decided that would be breakfast today for all of us…so as we cooked it we hear a tap at our door ..the wife of the man cooking brought us a plate full of eggs & toast…that was so nice of them …so we had that plus easy mac…lol…
They came in & did Tylers bllod work about 6ish & then a doc stopped in around 9 to let us meet him…they are coming to do his assesment at 2:30 today so we will then have a plan for all of his treatments I think…were so tired today..tyler has been asleep for hours now…but we dont dare wake him…we are going to tryand stay up til their bedtime here …so the time difference is one day ahead so like now its 12:09 pm here & for you guys its 12:09 a.m…….well i have tons more to share but the internet just dropped so will have to do this later…plus im sure i will have more interesting stuff to chat about !!!! everyone here we have met are so nice ..they come around your room at 10ish to see if you want to order pizza & they order it for you…its kinda like papa johns…they deliver here so for 10 US $ you get a large pizza & litter of coke..we each had a piece & it wasnt to bad..they come back around about 4 to see if you want to order dinner ..pizza or chinese !!! so we’ll see..one family here got online & found a mcdonalds & took a cab there for breakfast..so now that they found it im sure some of us will be making a trip there soon too..they said you get real sick of the pizza ..lol going to go take some pics of the world outside our windows here !!! And I will say this probably in every email or blog I do…be thankful everyday that we live in the USA..we have no clue how truly lucky we are !! more on that later…lol
Tami Terri & Tyler
Add comment July 26th, 2008
