October 18th (Somewhere over Canada)
Andy here.. We’re on a 747 and just finished dinner. Everyone is doing fine and it hasn’t gotten to the boredom stage yet. Since we’re heading for Tokyo, there are a lot of Japanese folks on board. Everyone is very nice and polite and smiling at Taylor. She just finished watching a movie (thanks Pa!) and now is playing with her Leapster (Dora the Explorer). Taylor is being very, very good and her only complaint so far is that it’s taking too long to get to her sister! This little creature is a "grazer".. She hasn’t stopped eating since we left the driveway this morning! :) Right now, she’s listening to iTunes of her favorite Disney Princess songs.
Everything is still kinda surreal. It feels like we’re going on a normal vacation rather than heading to China to get Taylor’s mei mei. It won’t hit me until I hold Tess in my arms and concentrate on keeping her from going ballistic. That is my only anxiety... trying to figure out how to minimize the trauma that this little 2.5 year old is going to go through in the next few days. We are hoping it will be a fairly "soft landing" :)
Right now, we’re working on some sort of sleep schedule.It’s about 6:45 PM EDT but 12 hours (AM) later in China. We know that whatever we try won’t work totally, but anything is better than waiting for the "zombie" stage to hit.
Not much more to say... I’m going to try and talk Sharon into playing a few games of cribbage and then walk around the plane a few hundred times. :)
Will post a few pics of the plane ride once we get on the ground and get some sleep.
Andy
Andy here.. We’re on a 747 and just finished dinner. Everyone is doing fine and it hasn’t gotten to the boredom stage yet. Since we’re heading for Tokyo, there are a lot of Japanese folks on board. Everyone is very nice and polite and smiling at Taylor. She just finished watching a movie (thanks Pa!) and now is playing with her Leapster (Dora the Explorer). Taylor is being very, very good and her only complaint so far is that it’s taking too long to get to her sister! This little creature is a "grazer".. She hasn’t stopped eating since we left the driveway this morning! :) Right now, she’s listening to iTunes of her favorite Disney Princess songs.
Everything is still kinda surreal. It feels like we’re going on a normal vacation rather than heading to China to get Taylor’s mei mei. It won’t hit me until I hold Tess in my arms and concentrate on keeping her from going ballistic. That is my only anxiety... trying to figure out how to minimize the trauma that this little 2.5 year old is going to go through in the next few days. We are hoping it will be a fairly "soft landing" :)
Right now, we’re working on some sort of sleep schedule.It’s about 6:45 PM EDT but 12 hours (AM) later in China. We know that whatever we try won’t work totally, but anything is better than waiting for the "zombie" stage to hit.
Not much more to say... I’m going to try and talk Sharon into playing a few games of cribbage and then walk around the plane a few hundred times. :)
Will post a few pics of the plane ride once we get on the ground and get some sleep.
Andy
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