Traveling across the world with a toddler....

Well I have to say our daughter is a natural born traveller. She loves airplanes and pretty much knows the drill when it comes to airports. She slept over half of our 12 hour flight to Taiwan. The rest of the time she just played, colored, ate "yummy" (if your hungry) airline food, as seen to the left! Once we were on the ground in Taiwan, Maya and I enjoyed a giant bowl of noodle soup, dad had a coke, and grammy had a cappuccino. After that, Maya did a couple of photo shoots with adoring onlookers. We washed up a bit and felt much better. The flight from Taiwan to Bangkok was relaxing. Maya slept the whole 3 hours. In Bangkok, mom and I stopped to got to the restroom. While Jared was watching our bags a large group of people surrounded him and Maya. They all wanted to pose and take photos with Maya! Below is a picture of part of the crowd as this was all going on. Once we got through the photo shoot we made it to immigration where we were unexpectedly ushered past all of
the long lines to the express/first class lane. We then walked up to the baggage claim where our bags were almost there immediately. The hard part came when trying to make a decision where to stay for the night. After about ten or more minutes of discussion we made a decision and headed towards customs. There were no lines at customs and we didn't even have to scan our bags. Thank you so much for your prayers. We were obviously blessed with God's favor and protection. I finally feel home. Tomorrow we make our journey (a one hour flight) to Chiang Mai, the city where Jared and Diane will be taking the 4-week TEFL Certification Course. We will write more later... right now we are excited to experience our first monsoon rain... It sounds like a we are right under a water fall. It looks like it too. Thank you again for your prayers!