Asia: Travel Over

      As I write this post, everyone else is napping - trying to catch up.  I will wake them all shortly, because the sooner we are onto the schedule here, the better.  I don't know how many opportunities I will have to blog during this trip, so I am taking my chance now, since we have a great internet connection.  We started our trip early Thursday morning and flew from the Rock, to Atlanta to South Korea to Thailand, which is a lot of flying.  The travel was about what we expected, maybe a tad bit better.  We certainly felt the prayers of our friends and family, because it was safe and smooth and we got all of our luggage.  The girls slept around seven hours total during the flights combined.  John and I slept hardly at all, and I will not lie to anyone here - there were several moments on our 14 hour flight that I was sort of hating it.  But, in hindsight, it was not that bad.  The girls really did well, considering what we were asking of them.  Here are a few captured moments.

We flew Korean Air, which was awesome.  Everyone was so kind, they gave us lots of toys and food (though I cannot necessarily recommend Korean food done by an airline), and the stewardesses were all dressed in beautiful turquoise silk with matching hair pieces.



Before the longest flight.  We did not look quite this chipper later.

Learning to use the in-flight entertainment.  This moment did not last long.

Sleeping Lily.  The best kind of Lily to have on a plane.

We had nothing but daylight for a whole 24 hours, which is super trippy.  Bella dealt with that in her usual way.  I am so glad that you cannot lose belly buttons.

This next picture is on our last leg from South Korea to Thailand.  This flight had mostly Asian people on it, and they were enamored with the girls, especially Bella.  They immediately gave us chocolate covered sunflower seeds, which fortunately, she liked.  The girl in the background spent a lot of the six hour flight staring at us.



We arrived in Thailand and were waived through to the Premier Immigration line, because we had the girls.  We did get stopped by a crowd of Thai people who wanted to photograph the girls or take pictures with them.  I think the girls were delirious by this point, because Lily was actually smiling, and Bella just kept waving to her admirers.  It was like we were celebrities.  But, then we made it through everything to Greg waiting to take us to the Guest House we are staying at.  It is always a glorious feeling to reach your destination and crawl into bed after that much travel.  But, thanks be to God, it was a good trip - though certainly not one I would like to do often.