We're home!

Our travel journey has ended after 30 hours from Guangzhou China to Kittery, ME. What a long trip home! Everything went smoothly through all the airports, and customs in China and the U.S. If there was one important thing to stress about the whole trip it is to plan a long layover in Chicago on purpose. We got into Chicago at about 2 p.m., and we had a layover before our next flight left at 6 p.m. However, we did not realize how long customs was going to take nor that there would be a long wait while the Chicago Customs Officer processed our brown envelope of adoption and Chinese papers to make Jade a U.S. Citizen. We walked away from him at about 4:30-4:45 p.m., and then went through at least two more security checkpoints before getting to our gate a little after 5 p.m. So, it was really good that we had a four hour layover. Other adoptive families in the airport had scheduled their flights closer together, and they missed their connecting flight before the U.S. Customs officer even looked at their paperwork. Anyhow, we're home and open to phone calls, and visits. Thank you all for following our very special journey, and I'm sure that Theresa will add more information to the blog today or tomorrow.

Take care,

Jeff, Theresa, and Jade XiaoZheng Gilman.