Nathaniel had a baseball game last night which lasted until close to 10:00 p.m., so Like Jethro Bodine, I was a doin' some ciphering...if we get home by 10:30ish pm and have to get up by no later than 4:00 a.m. I should be able to fall asleep and get 5:00 hours of sleep and still get to the airport by 5:30 a.m. Well it did not quite work out that way as neither Sonja nor I really slept at all....the excitement and the fear of oversleeping pretty much kept us both awake all night long....
So when we got up at 3:55 a.m. we got ready...dragged Nathaniel out of bed, packed the car, drove to the airport, parked our car, checked our baggage, went through security and waited for our flight. When we were at the ticket counter the American Airlines associate had said that we were lucky that our flight hadn't been cancelled. Earlier flights had already been cancelled so we all breathed a sigh of relief. So, as we find a seat in the terminal within a few minutes the airline employee announced over the intercom that our flight to Chicago had indeed been cancelled due to weather conditions. So, Sonja waited in line for about an hour so we could get re-ticketed. The good news is we found another flight, it is a direct flight from Omaha to Chicago and Chicago to Beijing, but no seats available until tomorrow. At least now, we do not have to make a stop in Japan. During the wait, we heard a lady sitting directly behind us asking her husband if he was ok...he was not responding, he was just staring off in space and sweating profusely....so she started to scream for help... a number of people laid him on the floor and sought professional help. In about 5 minutes several EMT members showed up and checked his vitals and then took him on a gurney to the hospital. Scary and very surreal....we hope he was going to be OK.
So...we will try it again tomorrow. Hopefully without any additional excitement. Looking at the bright side....Sonja can put the finishing touches on Zoe's room and Nathaniel can enjoy his first day of summer break absolutely doing nothing but being a teenager.
Unfortunately, we lost one of our free days to go site seeing in Beijing...however, today's delay should not impact our meetings with Holt , our adoption agency or for our trip to meet Zoe...we will try it again tomorrow....Thanks for visiting....more to come....
We are praying that you all have safe travels and we are excited to see all the pictures expecially the one of Nathaniel eating a scorpian. Have fun and a suggestion from a friend was to keep a journal of every day. It will be fun to look at again. Of course we can not wait to meet Zoe!!
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