Sweet Home Alabama!! We are so excited to be home with Lucy!
We arrived by train in Hong Kong on Friday, September 25th. Hong Kong was amazing. We had all day Saturday to look around. We really enjoyed seeing the island, all the amazing architecture 
and mix of old and new. Our hotel was great and we couldn’t have asked for a better ending to our trip! 
We even spent some time in Hong Kong Park. It was the place to be on a Saturday. Wedding photos, fashion photo shoots, fun photo opportunities for our family. A great open park in the middle of this large city. 
We packed up at the hotel and headed to the airport Sunday morning at 930am Hong Kong time (830pm Saturday in Alabama). We were all ready to be back home and introducing Lucy to her new life in Alabama. I wish I could tell you the almost 15 hour flight from Hong Kong to Dallas was as uneventful as our flight from Dallas to China, but it wasn’t.
About 8 hours into the flight my mom went to the bathroom. While waiting in line, I heard raised voices and turned to see my mom telling a man a few rows behind us “they are fighting”. Mom then got a flight attendant that didn’t know it was going on and next thing we knew a couple of people had been tasered. Not exactly what you want to happen at 35,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean. I thought it was bad enough two people were so stupid they would get in a fight on a plane, but if I had only know what really happened at the time, I would have been much more concerned.
After the flight was over and we were in immigration with other families adopting we found out from a family sitting in the section behind us what really happened. A lady flying for the first time had a panic attack and was trying to open the door. Another male passenger ran up to stop her and she started hitting him, he was trying to control her when a different male passenger just saw a man striking a woman so he jumped in the defend the female passenger. Ended up with the female and one of the male passengers getting tasered and strapped into a seat until the flight attendants could sort out what had happened, then only the female passenger remained in restraints. Craziness at 35,000 feet. Thank the Lord that guy jumped in when he did. So sorry he got tasered for helping!
We made it through immigration in Dallas and when they stamped Lucy’s passport it officially made her an American citizen!!! We then caught our flight to Birmingham only to find some 
amazing family and friends waiting on us at the airport. Heith’s good friend, Rob Ingram, who is a professional photographer came and took photos of our arrival. THANK YOU SO MUCH ROB!!!
We loved seeing friendly faces as we came down to the baggage claim area!
Today, Wednesday, is our first real day back on a schedule. Monday and Tuesday was a ton of day sleeping and waking up in the middle of the night. We actually made it out of the house today to run a few errands and Lucy was a champ! She is fitting right in with us. I know I mentioned this on Facebook, but not sure if I put it in a blog post. Lucy loves listening to music, specifically Ed Sheeran. We loaded her iPad with some music but she got on Heith’s phone and when she found Ed Sheeran she has not stopped listening to him. She only knows a few English words but tries her hardest to sing his song Photograph each time it comes on. It is so cute with her accent and only knowing some of the words.
Madison is also a big Ed Sheeran fan so I had recorded the broadcast of his show at Wembley. I played it for Lucy on Tuesday morning at 3am when we were all awake. I think we have watched it no less than 10 times since…. (we are actually watching it now)
We are doing good. Settling back in and getting on a schedule. Lucy’s first doctor’s appointment at Children’s Hospital International Adoption Clinic is on October 12th. Please pray that goes well as we will be there most of the day.
Thank you all for your support and prayers. We can’t wait for you all to meet Lucy!
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