This is the story of a mother, a father, and a sister from the United States of America traveling to adopt a two-year old boy, Teegan Kaixuan, from a beautiful land called China. This little boy doesn’t know it yet but he has a big family waiting to welcome him home. This family includes his two big sisters, Tabitha and Tobianna, and his two nieces, Faith and Hope. This blog is for them to share with their friends as they wait for their mommies to come home. Follow our journey as we fly on 9 different airplanes before we land again at home.

Did you know that China is more than 7000 miles from our home? Look at the maps
below and you will see the path our planes will take.

Big airplanes can travel about 500 miles per hour. That’s really fast! We usually don’t drive cars faster than 45 miles per hour when we are driving around town. Even going so fast, it will take us a long time to travel to China.

We will eat our meals and sleep in our seats. We will be on airplanes for more than 28 hours. That is more than a whole day. Since China is on the other side of the world they have a different time from us. When it is morning in China, it is night in the United States. We will leave home at around 1:00 in the afternoon, but in China, it will be 1:00 in the morning. If that is hard to understand, don’t worry, it is hard for grown-ups to understand, too.

So fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gentlemen, we are about to start an adventure.