We are home!!!

We made it home late Friday night. We were supposed to take the train to Hong Kong right after we got our visa, spend the night, spend the next day touring Hong Kong, and then take a late night flight home. We heard there was a tsunami heading toward Hong Kong, so Wednesday night I stayed up for hours emailing back and forth with our travel agent getting our flights changed. We were able to change them to leaving for home late Thursday night. It was raining the day we left, but Ray and I ran out to the island one last time for a few gifts. We checked out and then said goodbye to a lot of the people from our travel group. We were really lucky to have so many nice people to go through such an amazing journey with. Several families headed out to get our children's visas and then got on the train to Hong Kong. I really enjoyed the train ride. Finally, there was nothing left to do but relax for a couple of hours and enjoy the ride. We were able to see Hong Kong as we got closer to the city, which was nice. Getting on and off the train was CRAZY! Everyone races to get on and get all of their luggage on as soon as they can. Meaning all at once. It was crazy, fast, furious, and pretty disorganized. Ray, Zhao Lei and I said goodbye to our friends and took a taxi to the airport. We really enjoyed the ride and I was sorry we weren't able to spend the next day touring Hong Kong. It looked really nice and I would have loved to see it. We were really homesick, sick of being tourists, and Zhao Lei had begun acting up the last few days whenever we were around other people. It was time to go home.
We had a pretty easy flight. It was thirteen hours, but it didn't seem bad. Maybe because we knew we were at the end of the trip. It took a really long time to go through customs. They had added a step since I got home with Sasha. But Zhao Lei was great and handled the wait very well. When we finally walked out my sister, Jenny, and my kids, Colton, Brayden, Brookelyn and Sasha were all waiting for us! It was great! Brookelyn ran up and hugged Zhao Lei, who was fine about it, and then all three girls held hands as we walked to the car. When we got home, the kids raced around showing Zhao Lei everything in the house. All three girls slept on the bunkbed, which was cute.
The next day Zhao Lei and I dropped the little kids off at school. They went in late since it had been such a late night. I thought it would be nice for Zhao Lei to have a few hours without the girls being all over her. That afternoon afer we picked up the kids, we headed up to Brayden's soccer practice and the girls played at the park. It was really cute watching them, they had so much fun together. It was really sweet how well they got along. Brookleyn and Sasha each had their feelings hurt if Zhao Lei paid more attention to the other one for more than a minute, but otherwise it was great. We went home and had a fun night. There doesn't seem to be a problem with communication with the kids.