| We're home! Our flight home was great, Andrew ran around the airport in Kiev like a mad man, and then finally when we got on the plane he was fine! (Thank God!) We arrived in Vienna, Austria (Austrian Airlines finally confirmed our original plans so we ended up cancelling the arrangements with KLM) Vienna was good, actually it was better than good because we were one step closer to home!! I saw the sign that had our flight number and it said Washington, DC and my smile could not have been any bigger!! :) We were in Vienna an hour so we hit the "duty free" store and bought some animal crackers for Andrew. (Then helped with his ears popping on the plane). We finally got on the plane and took off to Washington...(9 1/2 hours) The flight wasn't that bad, we each had our own personal tv on the back of the chair in front of us and we had 5 movies to choose from, video games, cameras on the bottom of the plane to see below where we were flying and a camera from the cockpit looking out the front window! (It was really neat watching us take off and land from that point of view). Anyway, Andrew watched Pocahontas the entire way home (except for when he was sleeping off the children's tylenol I gave him to help him sleep... :) He did really well considering how long we were on the plane. He had to go toalet (bathroom in Russian) so I took him and he has a thing for flushing himself...well in this airplane, the flusher is EXTREMELY loud and if he could have crawled inside of me he would have. It scared the living crapola out of him...not literally! So the rest of the flight every time I asked him if he had to go the the bathroom of course he said no. (He went anyway). We landed in Washington, DC around 3:10pm Saturday, went throught Passport control and had to take Andrew's papers to immigration. We went through there fine too. He started pointing to his tummy and I asked if he had to go potty and he said yes, so we went. On our way walking over to customs for final "clearance" he puked ALL OVER me, and him. So I guess that's why he was holding his tummy. Oh well, I took it with a grain of salt, we cleaned up and walked to get our bags and out the big door to many people waiting for all kinds of family! We found Pop pop and Grandmom and Mimi and Pop, and everyone was so very happy to see us and to meet Andrew! We did our greetings and ran my parents back to there house to get their car then they came to our house. When we got to our house there was a huge sign that said "WELCOME HOME" and a little bicycle for Andrew sitting out front. He immeditely got out and went for the bike! He loves it!! (A gift from Grandmom and Pop pop!). Shortly after that, Brian's Aunt Jae and Uncle Mike from Pittsburgh and Pat and Don Bowie (friends of Brian's parents) and my sister came over for a party at our house. Brian and I were still working off of adrenaline! Everyone left and our friends Keith and Kelly came over with their new baby Owen and then our neighbors came over. Finally around 11:30 we all went to bed. Andrew fell asleep in our bed and at 1 am I put him in his. He slept till 8:45 this morning. That was good considering the fact that today we had MANY more people over all day from 1pm till 9:30 tonight. Brian and I are so completely exhausted, I lost it tonight and I don't know why, every emotion is just coming out from all the tiredness and newness to everything. Things will be fine and they will get better. Andrew is doing really well picking up English, but we still have alot to work on. I am going to bed now, so good night to all, and thank you to everyone for your prayers and thoughts throughout this entire process. We couldn't have done it without the help of our wonderful family and friends! We love you all!!! With much love, The Roney's |