DAY 1 - We are in Taiwan!

There's nothing much to report at this point other than that we are here in Taipei. We left Knoxville at 7:10 Wednesday morning and now 28 hours later, here we are. I'm not gonna lie... it's as long as it sounds!

The good news is that our trip was exactly what we had prayed for... uneventful. All of our flights were on time, our luggage arrived in one piece, and best of all our son Connor was WONDERFUL! He didn't say "Are we there yet" even one time! He slept a good bit of the way and the rest of the time he played his DS (thanks Nana and Grandaddy for the new games) and watched movies. Even on our longest flight (14 hours from Detroit to Tokyo) he was great. That was a major answered prayer!

Connor made a friend at the Tokyo airport while we were waiting to board our flight. Connor was just chatting away with a little Taiwanese boy and we just assumed that the boy didn't speak English but it turned out he did. He and his mom were from Ohio coming home to visit family. I'm not sure what they were talking about but as we left Connor said to him "What are you talking about man, you can't be allergic to movies!" I wish I had heard the beginning of that conversation!

We're off to bed... it's almost midnight right now and we are getting up bright and early to visit the Harmony Home orphanage where Claire lived for the first 18 months of her life. We're very excited to get the chance to see this place and to meet her caretakers there. We have exchanged several emails with Claire's primary caregiver while she was at the orphanage and it is obvious that she loves Claire very much. She has been incredibly helpful sharing details about Claire's story up until now. We're thrilled to have the chance to meet her.

We haven't even taken our cameras out of the case at this point but starting tomorrow, we'll hope to have pictures and video fairly regularly for you all to enjoy.

Goodnight from Taiwan!