Day 15- Wednesday

Today was hard because we knew we would not be going to see our daughter. We had to get everything packed up and ready to head back home. It was so weird to venture out of our guest house and into Port-au-Prince leaving behind a very big piece of our heart! Not only not being able to see our daughter, but all the kids that we have come to know.

Our day started at 4:30am (3:30 Central). We woke up (I worked out.. I know...) and then we got everything packed up. Our C4C rep read over all our paperwork and made sure we were set to go. Then we headed into Port-au- Prince. There we waited... and waited... and waited... then they finally called us up to the counter we answered a few questions and gave them all our paper work and we were done! The whole process took less than 15 minutes... the waiting probably lasted a good hour and a half.

Then they took us to the airport. We waited in the airport for a good 5 hours. Although we would have loved to go back to the creche it just didn't make any sense. It takes at least an hour to get back to Kenscoff so by the time we got there we would have to leave like 30 minutes later. We figured it was too hard for us and Benithy to do that.

As we sat there in the airport we kept thinking and talking about our little girl. Wondering what she was doing. If she realized we weren't there. I wondered what she was like when we weren't around. I suppose our friend we made will answer some of those questions for us! It just felt so weird not being there!

We loaded our plane and arrived in Atlanta. Unfortunately we missed our connecting flight to KC... which is where we are right now. Waiting to HOPEFULLY load onto this plane and get home tonight. By the time we get home tonight we'll be up for a good 24 hours.

On the flights and sitting here in the airport The Man and I talked about how weird it was to be back in the USA. We love it here. We feel so blessed to have what we have and live where we live, but we also realize how much we over use and over do. We are in a complete backward culture shock right now! :)

- We understand what those around us are saying.
- We are not stared at everywhere we go.
- The electricity stays on all the time.
- We don't have to sanitize after washing our hands
- We can see all around us (Haiti has wall EVERYWHERE.. you cannot really see beyond where you are)
- Just everything is a little bit different!