Travel day - Addie's first flight

To all you faithful blog readers, we apologize for the late post. Today was a travel day (and also Addie's first flight). In the morning we completed paperwork to prepare for our visit to the US Consulate next week. As you can imagine, 14 sleep deprived new parents trying to fill out forms in Chinese was a sight to behold. The highlight of the paperwork, however was when Addie received her Chinese passport. She's travelling under the banner of the People's Republic until she comes home and becomes a US citizen. I'm pleased to report that she has a bow on in her passport photo. I think the Chinese government is going to place an order for 100 million hair bows from Tadpoles and Tiddlers - its going to become standard issue for all girls. In the afternoon we packed up our bags and made our way to the airport. Our flight was scheduled to depart at 5:45pm, but my(Brad) sixth sense as an experienced flyer sniffed out a delay right away. Earlier flights to the same location late taking off, no plane at the gate when we arrived, frantic airport personnel - I started having flashbacks to Chicago O'Hare. Unfortunately, I was right, but for different reasons. It turns out that in China, there is a limit to the number of babies on a flight. There were two adoption groups on the flight, so we blew past the limit. It looked grim, but the airline made an exception and let us on board. Then began the game of musical chairs - only one baby per row so everybody had to get up and start moving around. 30 newly adopted babies on one plane moving everywhere was a sight to behold. Needless to say, the locals were not happy. We almost had a brawl between a passenger and flight attendent. Once we had everyone situated, we went out to the runway and parked for 2 hours waiting out a storm. By the time we landed in Guangzhou, it was 10pm and we were 3 hours late. Addie was a trooper and can't wait to do battle with Chicago O'Hare airport like her old man. Now we're at the White Swan hotel and its past midnight so we're off to bed. See attached some photos from the trip along with Addie's new best friend, Lilly Lu and family from Georgia.