We planned months ago that we would make our first post-Anna visa trip to come back to the States to introduce her to family and friends. Already having experience with one country with Ellie and her papers we figured it should be pretty easy, but of course we were wrong. A process that is supposed to take 4 weeks took us 11, which included 2 trips to the embassy 3 hours away, 2 rushed packages, and many phone calls. But at last 3 days before we were schedule to leave we got it!
Then of course on our scheduled day to leave and fly into Atlanta (and then on to Durham) there has to be one of the biggest snow/ice storms of the century. So to make a long story short we left our house at 8am Monday morning and did not arrive in Augusta, GA (not planned destination) until 4pm on Tuesday. We gave up on even trying to get to Durham which was our original plan. Everything that could have gone wrong, did in the Atlanta airport, which therefore resulted for us "sleeping" on the floor Monday and being literally stuck there on Tuesday. Thankfully my dad braved the dangerous icy roads to come and rescue us from the weather and from shear insanity (ie 3 kids, 8 bags of luggage, 1 hour of sleep).
1am sleeping arrangements.
4am
So all that to say the Lord is good, we are exhausted, and I can definitely say this trip has been eventful even though Anna has yet to meet any new friends or family yet.
Daddy's super cool tent made with luggage to help pass the time away.
8 comments:
OH MY MY MY!!!! Horrible, I don't even know how to begin to feel this pain. That is THE absolute worst, but glad to have the McCanns in the US!
Ughh! I can only begin to imagine. You should win an award for surviving that!
Oh my gosh, I am so sorry! Glad you were rescued and can now hopefully get some good sleep!!
Yikes! SO glad the ordeal is over, and I hope the trip back is much better. xoxo
Wow-- yall are troopers.
The tent IS fabulous-- especially what it's doing to Lu's hair in that pic.
Love you. Hope the rest can be restful.
Oh my goodness, what a trip! Praying that you're getting plenty of rest and enjoying the rest of it!
Wow, that sounds rough! Loved the luggage tent, though :) Glad you made it, finally. I hope you have a really fun trip!
man i Feel your pain. I got stuck at JFK airport when the the NYC blizzard hit a few weeks ago. I was stuck for 40 hours and it was miserable. I know that was nothing compared to you guys have 3 kids!!! Glad you are out now.
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