Laying over in LA

Our travel group has assembled in Los Angeles. We're all hanging out at the Sheraton Gateway hotel waiting for the 12:10am flight on Korean Airlines tonight. Dana's mom Bonnie made the flight in from Eugene this morning and we took the Midwest flight from Milwaukee to Los Angeles. When Dana was checking in, the gate agent asked if she had just saw us. I think we might be spending a bit too much time at the airport!

Bonnie got in early so she took the shuttle down to Irvine to visit grandkids Austin and Kylie. After Austin finished up with kindergarten, Alison brought the crew up. The kids are now tearing apart the room, but having a blast. They are all getting ready to go into the pool.

We've got a few travel difficulties to overcome. We found out that larger family room at the SWS guest house is not available during our stay. We're not sure about the smaller rooms, but our agency AIAA is checking with SWS (the Korean agency). It's a frustrating process because of the time difference and such. It takes a long time to transmit information back and forth so we make a reservation request, wait a day, then make another request.

Our other difficulty is that we're still not sure about available seats on the Korean flight this evening. We're just going to show up and pray for the best.

We did find out that we'll be meeting Ian at his foster Mom's house on Monday around 10:30am. We'll then get to meet Ben and Cami's foster parents on Tuesday and after that, we get Ian! Wow, we weren't expecting to get him that fast. So we'll have him for two nights before we head home. He's either going to love having a brother and a sister or he's going to be in such shock from the change. We hope he's an easygoing baby.

Check back later to see if we made flight. No news is probably good news, although I'm hoping to have enough time to post before we get on the flight.