Safely Home

We arrived safely home yesterday evening. We figure that door to door, it took about 28 hours to do it!

For those bringing your adopted children back to Kazakhstan, upon exiting, have both US and Kaz passports avaiable. The airline wanted to see Cameron's US passport to show that he had permission to enter the States. Otherwise, show the Kaz passport when going into the passenger area and when going through passport control. In Amsterdam or Frankfurt, show the US passport, as once again, you are proving that your child has permission to return to the States.

Cameron slept a good 3 hours on the flight from Almaty to Frankfurt and then about a few more hours from Frankfurt to Atlanta. This gave us some time to rest and sleep as well.

When we arrived at Frankfurt, we made a beeline to the McDonald's, so that Cameron could play. From there we did a little shopping and then when to our gate. We finally boarded our plane to Atlanta.

There was a huge thunderstorm moving through Middle Georgia, so our landing was delayed by over 40 minutes. My BIL Burl was waiting for us at baggage claim and my SIL Linda was at our house, with a hot meal waiting for us.

We had some supper, and put Cameron to bed at about 8:50. Tom and I both took showers. That shower was like being in heaven. Sweet smelling water, ahhhhh...

Now, we have to start getting ready for trip number two. We already have our letter of invitation, so I have to get our visa application in the mail on Monday. We've purchased our plane tickets, but I need to let our agent know we are home, so he can mail them for us.

We leave again on May 4th.