I received the travel call at 11:00a.m. Wednesday, Aug 20 from the agency telling us that Rylan was ready to come to the U.S. His flight would be arriving in Chicago at 7:35p.m. Friday, Aug 22. Ron and I were so excited that we would finally get to meet our son. We borrowed a van from a friend and invited Pat Brehm, Deb Wenger, and Kari Kromminga to go with us.
We let our house around 12:30 on Friday after figuring out the car seat and getting the cameras and diaper bag ready. We got at O'Hare around 5:00p.m. and went to dinner to kill some time, but it was hard to eat knowing it wouldn't be long. We met our greeter, Bob from the agency around 7:00p.m. and there was another family who was also waiting to meet their 10 month daughter who was on the same flight with Rylan. They were from Nashville and very sweet.
Bob received a phone call from the agency letting us know that when Rylan and his escort were in San Francisco he had not ate anything since they left Korea and had very bad diarrhea, so Bob picked up some pedialyte for us. Pat was keeping in contact with his wife Connie who was checking our flight numbers on line. O'Hare wasn't showing current flight information for their flight, but we quickly found out they were about 5-10 min early. Yippee!! We got the call, letting us know that our babies and escorts were waiting at gate 9. We were waiting at baggage claim gate 3, so we started our walk. We kept looking at everyone, trying to find our babies in the crowd and Ron saw them right away and said there they are. We saw the two babies and we knew exactly which baby was waiting for us. Our escort was very protective of Rylan and it took a little while to get him from her arms, but at 7:40 we were holding him.
By 8:15 we were in our van getting on the interstate for home. He fell asleep shortly after the ride and slept until 11:30 when we pulled into our driveway. He did very well for all the changes he had just gone through in the last 24 hours. It was a wonderful night and we kept checking to see if he was really in our house and it was all real. It was a wonderful day.
We let our house around 12:30 on Friday after figuring out the car seat and getting the cameras and diaper bag ready. We got at O'Hare around 5:00p.m. and went to dinner to kill some time, but it was hard to eat knowing it wouldn't be long. We met our greeter, Bob from the agency around 7:00p.m. and there was another family who was also waiting to meet their 10 month daughter who was on the same flight with Rylan. They were from Nashville and very sweet. 
Bob received a phone call from the agency letting us know that when Rylan and his escort were in San Francisco he had not ate anything since they left Korea and had very bad diarrhea, so Bob picked up some pedialyte for us. Pat was keeping in contact with his wife Connie who was checking our flight numbers on line. O'Hare wasn't showing current flight information for their flight, but we quickly found out they were about 5-10 min early. Yippee!! We got the call, letting us know that our babies and escorts were waiting at gate 9. We were waiting at baggage claim gate 3, so we started our walk. We kept looking at everyone, trying to find our babies in the crowd and Ron saw them right away and said there they are. We saw the two babies and we knew exactly which baby was waiting for us. Our escort was very protective of Rylan and it took a little while to get him from her arms, but at 7:40 we were holding him. 
By 8:15 we were in our van getting on the interstate for home. He fell asleep shortly after the ride and slept until 11:30 when we pulled into our driveway. He did very well for all the changes he had just gone through in the last 24 hours. It was a wonderful night and we kept checking to see if he was really in our house and it was all real. It was a wonderful day.
