Amsterdam

I got a quick email from Katy this afternoon. They made it to Amsterdam!!!!!

Things are for the most part good. As with most international travel and all adoption journeys, there were some bumps in the road. I have copied a bit of her email...

The flight here was smooth. However we were stuck in the middle of the middle row, so no sleep for either of us. We landed on time (about 10:30am their time). We ran into a couple from Hugo, MN that is also staying overnight here. They are adopting a 7 month old AND 61/2 month old baby girls. They are not siblings. They have a 13 month old at home. The process went super fast for them, so they thought they would have 9 more months. ha! They seemed so young, but very, very sweet. We departed ways as they were heading out to find a hotel. We head down to baggage claim to discover that neither of our bags where there. Off to file a lost report. We are so, so hoping that they just routed them straight through to Addis. Thankfully, I packed underwear and socks in the carry on and we will probably go by cheesy Netherland t-shirts for the trip tomorrow.

The hotel is connected to the airport, so it literally a 2 minute walk. We head to the room and decide to sleep 2 hours before taking the train to the city center. Doug woke up and is not feeling well. He has had a slight fever and seems clammy, so we are staying close to the room. Makes for a long day, especially when there really is no TV.

But by the time we got to the room we have made lots of jokes about wearing the same shirt for the next five days. We have no idea what Emma will get to wear. LOL! I have never, ever have had my luggage lost and the weird thing is both bags??? So we are really being optimistic and thinking they just routed the bags ahead to Addis.

Tomorrow our flight is at 10am ish.

P.S. Tell the girls we love them and miss them terribly already!!!