We're here!

Mark's mom went with us to the airport to see us off and take our van back home for us. We experienced our first hiccup at check in when they said we needed to change our return dates due to not having passports. They didn't want us to be turned back by immigration in HK. They ended up temporarily releasing our seats and they got grabbed up. This caused us to have different seating assignments. On the first leg to Detroit, Mark was in the back with Kaylin, while I was seated with Lindsey and Andrew in three aisle seats directly behing each other near the front. First Praise!, The Lord worked it out that a lady offered to swap with Lindsey so she could sit with me. Andrew sat dirctly in front of us beside a gentlemen who let him have the windo seat. All three kids got to sit by the window like they wanted. Second Praise!:Once in Detroit we explained what happeded and a nice lady blocked 6 seats essentially for us right at the front of coach seating. That meant plenty of leg room for us to get up and move around without getting out in the aisle. It also allowed us to stretch our legs and use our carry on bags as leg rests. We each got about 3 or 4 hours of sleep. We arrived in Hong Kong at 8:45 pm on Friday (7:45 am NC time). It took us until about 10:15 to get through immigration and get our luggage. We then found our driver holding a 'Beverly' sign to take us to our new place. The views are awesome. We got to our apartment around 11pm. We slightly unpacked and went to bed (kids around midnight, me and Mark around 1 am).