First to Delhi, then to America

I keep hearing this from Arilyn Sneha. She was so well prepared that she knew she would go very fast on a plane and where she was going. So, first to Delhi. We left the hotel in Bangalore at 6:15 am to make our 8:45 am flight to New Delhi. Soooo early. I was up before the alarm again. I cannot wait to put together more than 6 hours of sleep a day....

Arilyn Sneha did great on the plane. She was obviously stressed in the airport waiting to get on the plane. She expresses her stress by snuggling close, putting her head down, and shutting down. She takes at least one nap a day, but it is not because she is tired, it is to avoid and deal with whatever is going on. She woke up and board the the bus to the plane. Hmmmm. We were first herded onto a bus, driven across the tarmac, then we climbed the steps up to the plane. Okay. I guess that works too, but it seems so 1950's. She excitedly watched take off, then went to sleep for the next 2 hours and woke again after we had landed.

We went to the mall near our hotel (which doesn't have a pool, much to everyone's disappointment) to buy her new shoes. She is very happily the owner of a pair of sparkly light blue tennis shoes and a cute pair of pink sandals that actually fit.

She has been generally pleasant and cheerful all day today. Breakfast was Mini Ritz Peanut Butter sandwiches and some croissant later. Lunch and dinner were scrambled eggs :) That pretty much rounded out our day. We finished dinner, then came back to the room to put the kids to bed. Greg is already there and I am on my way shortly. I know that it is not even 9:30 pm here, but maybe if I go to bed now, I can get a decent night's sleep before 5 am when I have been waking up. Now, this hotel is much more quiet than the last one. The World Cup of Cricket is over, so I do not expect any explosions tonight and we are not sitting in the middle of a jungle so there should not be a cacophony of birds beginning at 4 am to wake me.

Tomorrow is her medical appointment in the morning with a stop to the US Embassy to drop off paperwork before her Embassy appointment on Wednesday. She will receive all the normal tests plus a chest Xray due to the positive TB test she had. I am hoping that the doctors here (this being India where reportedly all babies receive this vaccine and test positive to TB all of their lives) recognize that the vaccination she received as a newborn for TB is what has caused her to test positive and is able to help us with the medical reports for her visa.

Here's praying that appointments tomorrow run smoothly and are not too traumatic. Thank you for continuing to lift us up in prayer. Now is when the real fun begins as we start the technical half of the trip. Good night.