We Are On Our Way!!!!!!!!!!!!

WooooooHooooooooooo!

It was a bright early start for us today. Our good friend Jim dropped us off at the airport. We never would have asked for a ride, but when someone offers even after they know how early you are leaving.... you take them up on it! Thank you Jim!

We left our house at 3:15am. Of course the ride down to the airport was a breeze. This is the only time I have ever travelled around the Atlanta vicinity that I didn't see traffic. So now you know, if you want a traffic free ride...3-4am is it!

Then, when we got to the United counter we found out that we couldn't check in for another 1/2 hour. So why don't they tell you to ignore the "two hours early" rule if your flight is at 6am? We could have had another 1/2 hour of sleep. I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but to us right now it really is. We went to bed after midnight .... lots of double checking our luggage to make sure we weren't forgetting something, and lots of cleaning so that our house guests won't think we are slobs... or at least not too much. (Just don't look in the closets!) Plus it is always nice to come home to a clean house after a trip. (To our guests... just throw some cleaner in the toilet and the "clean smell" will be there again when we get home! ha ha! PS thanks for doing that for us!) Plus, friends pointed out that this is the last chance for our house to be clean......forever! We are ready to have the mess of twins! Will that finally give me an excuse for all my clutter? Yes, Scott, I know....NO CLUTTER ALLOWED!

I can't believe we are finally on our way. It still doesn't seem quite real.

Right now I am blogging from the Washington Dulles Airport. We have an almost 5 hour layover here. We originally had flights set up with a much smaller window on the layover, but on the advice of our agency we moved it to a longer window in case of flight problems. Our flight to DC was smooth sailing. We did have to loop around after the first attempt to land, there was a plane in the way... I'm glad they noticed! So now we are chillin' in the airport. We are trying to stay awake w/out napping until our flight leaves. That is hard to do when you are working on 2 1/2 hours sleep. But if we fall asleep when we leave here, we will be timing in with when we should be sleeping in China as there is a twelve hour time difference.

See you all at our next posting! (had to throw a little "Georgia" in there!)