Over the Rainbow

OVER THE RAINBOW This blog was created so our family and friends could follow us on our "journey over the rainbow" to find the "pot of gold" at the end . . . our daughter!! (feel free to post a comment)

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Sunday, December 31, 2006

AND BABY MAKES THREE!!!
At about 9:45am on Christmas day we were able to finally wrap our arms around our beautiful baby girl . . . the feeling is indescribable in words, and such a flood of emotions!!!! We are sooooooooo in love with her!!! She is our Christmas miracle, what a blessing.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OUR FIRST "FAMILY" PHOTO

Wow what a trip! Not only can we say we have survived a hurricane, but now we can add an earthquake to that! On Tuesday 12/26, We were in our hotel room, we are staying on the 9th floor . The baby was sleeping and woke up crying about 5min before it hit. Aaron and I both had the same feeling that we were about to pass out. Aaron was swaying so much sitting in a chair he thought he was going to hit the floor. I was standing next to him and thought I was just exhausted and I was light headed and weak in the knees and about to pass out. When Aaron looked over to start to make his way to the bed he saw all the clothes hanging in the closet swinging really hard side to side. He said I think we are having an earthquake..No I KNOW we are. When the second one hit the walls made a cracking sound and as we held on we looked out the window and we saw the water in the fountain start to splash out and sway with the moving earth. Now that panic was setting in about what was coming next, Aaron wanted to head down to the lobby when I reminded him that we are also in tsunami country. We called the front desk and they assured us every thing was ok, no need to evacuate or anything, just watch the news. The epicenter of the quake which measured 6.7 on the richter scale, occured at the very southern end of Taiwan, and we were in Taipei which is on the northern end. The quake apparently damaged a major telecom line, so trying to get an internet connection was very difficult.
So we apologize to all those that were following, waiting, or worrying . . . we three are all home now, safe and sound, exhausted (27 hours travel time, one way), and trying to get back on our time schedule.(we are 13 hours behind Taiwan)!

Will post more when I can see straight. HAPPY NEW YEAR :-)

3 Comments:

At 1/02/2007 1:07 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

HAPPY New Year!!!! So happy for you that your family is finally together!

Jackie from Taiwan Adopting Group

 
At 1/04/2007 11:59 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

she is beautiful!!

 
At 1/04/2007 8:40 PM, Blogger Ann said...

Welcome home!!! She's gorgeous!!! It must have been pretty scary being there for the earthquake. I'm glad everyone is okay and that you're now home safe and sound as a family of three. Congrats!!!

 

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