After 14 1/2 hours...we land in INDIA!!

Well we finally could breathe after being crunched up on a plane. I was actually relieved to smell the spicy,dusky,humid air of India.Just knowing we were in the same country as our daughter made us glad. We were already missing the boys. We met our driver at the airport from the Radisson which was about 4 miles from the airport. It was such a eye opener to ride in the nice a/c car as he zig zagged his way thru the traffic. We thought we were gonna wreck several times! It was so weird as they had to security check us and the vehicle for bombs,just not what we were used to in the bluegrass state of KY! We only stayed at the hotel long enough to take showers,rest what we could, and gather our thoughts. We ate some really good gourmet chocolates!! By this time, my sinuses were going wacko. My ears were also stopped up. I was always like HUH? WHAT?. So it was already early saturday morning and getting Maiya was just hours away. We laid there with our eyes closed but never slept. But we felt great,LOL.
So we flew to KOLKATA and we sure got some stares at this airport!:) Then we met our driver PJ who took us to the Kenilworth. He told us lots of India history. The people we met seem to be so content and then I saw the sign...Welcome to Kolkata ...THE CITY OF JOY!!. Traffic was bumper to bumper!! Even though we seen lots of poverty we seen lots of GOOD. Contentment. Beautiful people and color. Hard dedicated workers.
We finally got to the Kenilworth,we liked it here!! We were expecting for Anju to bring Maiya to us and then we get a suprise,we get to go to the orphanage.
So we go in two hours,we are so excited by now. Then we make a few calls and start to get it all ready. We are here on Purna Das Road,then we see the building walk up and we are greeted by some guards. We go to the office to talk with the director all about our princess and then she gave us this darling scrapbook.:) So we head to the room and there she is sitting all pretty in her dress in her crib.Hair fixed and all, a princess for sure, a true Indian princess.
As she seen us she looked at me then Shane and her eyes were big as flashlights. I walk over smiling from ear to ear and Shane is taping. I pick her up and start to whisper things to her and then she is listening and breaks a smile. It was like she knew who we were but a little scared cause she is thinking that her dreams of us are now real. Then she starts to cry and of course it was nap time. Then I look back and Shane is crying as he is watching us meet Maiya in reality,not just a dream anymore,a dream come true!!
Then she lays eyes on her daddy and Shane comes to meet her. I recall a dream that I had a while back about her special GOTCHA DAY and it happened just like I dreamed. WOW! Thanks be to the LORD! We got to see the other babies as well. So it was finally time to say goodbye and so we did. Bittersweet. Off for the visa picture and more to come after she awakes from her peaceful nap at the hotel...