We've arrived!

We woke up bright and early this morning (3:00 am) and headed off to LAX.  We had no problems with check-in or flights.  Everything was pretty smooth.  We actually got into Miami earlier so we decided to walk to our next gate instead of taking the shuttle.  This gave us all a little exercise before having to sit on a plane for another 3.5 hours.  We had a nice lunch in Miami and then boarded the plane. 

We were welcomed into Bogota by lightning, what a beautiful show!  But, there was no rain at all.  It actually feels a little warm tonight!  Alejandra's face lit up when the wheels of the plane touched down.  She knew we were FINALLY in Colombia!  We went to immigration relatively quickly (they have a priority lane for people with children) and found our luggage quickly.  We then proceeded and saw a very familiar face Andres!  He welcomed us with open arms and he was so excited to see Alejandra!  The last time he saw her she was 9 months old!  Alejandra quickly put on her best Spanish conversation and began speaking in Spanish.  She even told her daddy to speak in espanol!

We got into a very large taxi (it was a 9 seater van) because that was what was available at the time.  Andres said he remembered that we weren't light packers, so he knew a big van would be perfect for us :D!  Alejandra sat down in her seat and started looking for a car seat or seat belt.  She was very concerned, at first, that there weren't any and that nobody had one on!  She quickly got over that and enjoyed her van ride back to the apartment. 

We had a tiny problem finding our apartment, but nothing major.  We have a park right in front of our place which will be WONDERFUL!  We aren't really sure where we are quite yet.  We have to get out and explore some more tomorrow.  Mark ventured out with John, the apartment owner, to get groceries for breakfast tomorrow morning.  Poor guy....I just threw him out there.  He brought back the MOST basic things.  We've got some grocery shopping to accomplish on Tuesday as well ;)

We know our social worker appointment with ICBF is tomorrow afternoon.  Thankfully we get to sleep in and take our time in the morning before we have to get ready to head out to ICBF.  A lot of our nerves have calmed down tonight because that big flight and getting to our "home" is done.  Now comes the exciting part, meeting our newest member!

We are wiped out!  Buenas noches from Bogota....Ciao!