Back at Home

We made it home around 8:30pm on Friday night! It was a long trip, but Bryce was a good sport about things. We left Almaty at 3:20am to fly to Frankfurt. The flight we were on may as well have been called the "Baby Express". There were at least 5-6 adopted Kazakh children on the flight. There were also 3 other WPA families heading out with us, although they were just finishing up their first trips and will return again in about 3 weeks to pick up their children. After we arrived in Frankfurt, we had a 7 hour layover (ugh). This time we did not tour Frankfurt, but instead explored the airport (the long corridor connecting Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 is the perfect place to get away from all the noise for a while)! Our flight from Frankfurt to Detroit was the most trying of the 3. Bryce screamed for about 4 hours before finally going to sleep. On both of the long flights, we had bulkhead seating and a bassinet, which we were very glad to have!! When we landed in Detroit, Bryce officially became an American citizen, but I think the moment was lost on him. We were very excited for him. We had a very tight layover in Detroit (we were running to the gate as they were paging us to board), but we made the flight to Denver. Luckily, Bryce slept for the entire flight - takeoff to landing.

It is nice to be back home, and Bryce is doing wonderfully despite his parents' relative inexperience!

Our second trip over to Almaty also went like clockwork and we can't say enough good about the agency that helped us - World Partners Adoption.