We arrived in LA safe and sound. It took quite a long time to get through immigration. But after an hour of waiting in line and working with the immigration officer Liam was granted citizenship. We have a temporary Green Card until his citizenship certificate is received..
With still 2 hour to spare we made our way to customs. It was very easy to get through. Then we headed to the American Airlines counter to checkin for our flight. To our surprise our ticket had seats hadn't been confirmed properly and the flight was sold out with several people waiting on standby already. Still we headed to the gate hoping someone would take pity on us since we had been traveling for so long with a small child. And a few people did, just not the ones with the powere to help us. In fact one gentelman offered us his seat, and we had hope. Unfortunately, there were people ahead of us on the wait list and they got in. At 12:20am we realized that we would not make our flight. Tears flowed as we walked away from the gate. We headed back to the ticket counter to see if we could get booked on the morning flight (although we already knew that it had been sold out too). On our way, we found a flight getting ready to leave for Dallas. We figured that Dallas was one step closer to home, so we gave it a shot. It too was sold out and had a long list of standbys. But as we approached, liam started to sob. The young lady at the counter took pitty on us and put us at the top of the standby list. She then called Dallas to get us a flight to St. Louis. It too was sold out, but they somehow got us 2 seats. Within 5 minutes we were on our way to Texas. We arrive at 5:30 am. We then catch a flight to St. Louis that will get us home at 9:30. Only an hour and a half later than originally planned.
If you are coming to meet us at the airport, we are on flight AA1774 from Dallas. See you soon!
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Hooray! By the time you read this you will have landed here in St. Louis. I'm so excited I could burst. During prayer meeting last night, I just had tears in my heart and throat when asking the Lord to grant you and your family a safe arrival. What a journey...and there's more to come!! :) Love you so much, Diana
Can not WAIT to see pics of the WHOLE family and hear how thigns are going! I've been thinking about ya'll all morning and what a happy day this is for you!!!!!
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