Matthew and I are currently cruising at 34,000 ft, 583 MPH, -60 degrees somewhere close to Siberia. We've already been traveling for about twelve hours, seven of those hours have been on this plan ride to Beijing. It turns out that the in flight movies on a Chinese airline are Chinese movies. Who would've thought? Since I don't understand the movies, I've been people watching. (Actually, I'm only about 6 feet away from the wall that has the movie screen on it, so I'm not seeing much. I can see Matt and he looks pretty good. :-) Who else have I seen? There's a man standing in the very back of the plane where there is a little bit of room by the bathrooms. He's been doing yoga and other interesting stretches on and off for the past seven hours. I wouldn't be surprised to see downward facing dog or salute to the sun the next time I go for a walk around the cabin. I really think he's trying to get the stewardesses attention with all of his yoga moves. Matt and I are realizing that we needed to bring more movies and music with us. Maybe a card game too. 16 hours of flying leaves you with a lot of free time.
When the airplane took off from Phoenix this morning it made me sad and scared. We were flying off to an unknown country to get a little girl that doesn't know we are coming. I suppose if you can get cold feet before you marry somebody that you should know better than anybody, you should be allowed at least 5 minutes of cold feet for an adoption. Right? (Just for the record I didn't have even 1 minute of cold feet before marrying Matt and I only had cold adoption feet for 5 minutes - maybe less :-) ) Now I'm ready for the plane ride to be over and the good part to start. Hey, Matt! Are we there yet?
I'm still thinking we are the lucky ones.
It's too late now, but for future reference: if you ask, they will give you a free deck of cards on international flights. Well, they used to. I'm sure you wont be as bored on the trip home!
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