Yes, We're Home!

Sorry for the long blackout period. We made it home Friday night after some of the most chaotic moments of the trip. Let me just say that you could not pay me enough money to be in Beijing next summer! Talk about airport chaos... Once we landed at Dulles, we met some of the most unfriendly people of our entire trip. To those grumpy (and that is an understatement) customs officials I say that I'm sorry that you are overworked and that you have to put up with some seriously unintelligent people. But, we are people, not cattle and despite traveling with 4 children for over 24 hours, we still do have a brain and prefer to be treated as such. We had even decided that it was almost not worth the non stop flight to have to deal with the one hour we spent in immigration!!!
There was quite a crowd waiting for almost 2 hours for us to finally show our shiny faces. Thanks!!!! It was such a sweet welcome and we were overwhelmed with the love and acceptance you guys showed our family and Caleb. We could not ask for better friends and family. Your prayers and presence are such a gift and we thank you!
We've managed to make it to church today and play practice yesterday but are having some nasty jet lag. Ken, Sarah and Caleb were asleep by 6pm so we'll see how early they are up tomorrow. Poor Nathan doesn't know what to do with all of us in our wacked out body schedules!