And we made it home...
Our departure on Saturday morning at 5:00am started out well enough - we got out the door and into our nice van to get to the airport. The ride to the airport can be 2.5 hours to 4 hours depending on traffic, so the third time around I planned our ride to Hong Kong to be in the early morning hours. Unfortunately, the van was SO speedy that Evan starting moaning about 15 minutes in that is stomach hurt. Ten minutes later I had my first mom-of-three moment as I held Gemma in my lap in a van going 80 mph (yes, no car seats in China, its ridiculous) while also holding a bag for Evan to puke in. THANK GOD we were able to contain all puke and not ruin the kind driver's beautiful van. 1.5 hours in, we found out that the rules for entry into Hong Kong had changed as well, which now required to us to exit the van, go inside to go through a passport checkpoint, and come back out to get back in the van, which something all the kids were thrilled to do :) There was a bit o...