Home

After 36+ continuous hours of travel, we made it back home.  We took a five hour train ride from Charlie's region back to Ki3v, arrived at 10 pm, drove to a hotel near the airport, slept for about three hours, hopped on a shuttle, took a three hour flight to Frankfurt, flew 10+ hours back to Texas and finally drove the hour and a half home.  We got home at 4:30 pm and left the house an hour later so that we could get the girls to their soccer games.  We got back to the house at 8:00 and crashed about an hour later.

Unfortunately there was no rest for the weary and we hit the ground running the next day.  Real life was calling after almost two weeks away and we were back to work Friday morning.  Needless to say we are both still a bit jet lagged and reeling from the trip.  We are, nevertheless, SO happy to be home.  We missed our girls, sleeping in our own bed and Mexican food.  We are impatiently awaiting a court date so that we can plan our second of three trips.  This trip should hopefully be a short one (there just for court) and while we are dreading the travel and subsequent exhaustion, we are anxious to be one step closer to bringing Charlie home.  We took his measurements during our last visit so that we can make sure we bring appropriately sized clothes when we pick him up.  He will have to change at the orphanage as the clothes he currently wears belong to the orphanage, not to Charlie.  They'll be passed onto the next boy.  It makes me sad that these boys don't even own the clothes on their back.

Though they will be fewer now that we are not in country, I'll definitely be posting updates as news comes in.  In the meantime we will be sleeping as much as possible and brushing up on our Uk@inian language skills.  Thanks to everyone for the continued thoughts and prayers; we couldn't do this without you!