We're Back

We made it back!!! Our total commute time 28 hours counting our super long 13 hour layover in Korea. We left our hotel on Tuesday at 14:00 in VN and went around Hanoi with Mom visiting some relatives we hadn't had a chance to visit yet. We had to buy an extra suitcase in order to accommodate all the gifts we bought. We then went to our Aunty's and had dinner and relaxed until time for our flight. We got to the Hanoi airport around 22:30. Thuy woke up just as we were going onto the flight. You could just see in her little face that she was scared and couldn't quite figure out what exactly was going on. All the beeps of the cabin like the seat belt sign and the overhead speaker really confused her. She was looking all around trying to figure it out. And then the crying began. She cried for a good little bit, but Korean airlines gave us our bassinet and as soon as we put her in it she went to sleep.

At the airport in Seoul they have a hotel in the airport. We rented a room for the 12 hours and were able to take naps, watch a movie, and the time really passed quickly. Bill and I even got to take a shower and refresh a little bit. Thuy did much better on her second flight. She was still really nervous when we first got on, but not as bad. I've found she can get very overwhelmed when situations change and there's lots of new people especially when they are packed in close around us on a flight. Whenever we go anywhere new she typically doesn't smile much and gets very quite, she has to take it all in and figure it out before she'll start being her regular happy baby self.

We arrived back in Honolulu around 10:30. It took a while to get through customs. They go over all your paperwork, but we met 2 other families who had just arrived from China with their new babies. Which was very nice. It was so exciting to bring Thuy home to the states. I whispered in her ear how much she was going to love it here and how we'd support her in all her dreams to help make them come true!