Thursday, June 29, 2006
12:11 AM
This is sort of easier to keep track of if you think of Vietnam being 12 hours ahead of Eastern time. Tom is traveling with his mom (Patty), and his sister (Cynthia) will join them later in the week.
The schedule - Tom left for Vietnam yesterday at around 6:30pm, Eastern time. He and his mom landed in Taipei earlier today (and gave me a quick call) and right now, at around midnight on Thursday Eastern (noon Thursday, Vietnam time), he's landing in Ho Chi Minh City. They'll be met by agency staff at the airport, and they will all travel to Danang together.
After arriving in Danang and getting settled into the hotel, Tom and his mom will go to the orphanage and meet Cupcake (Thursday afternoon Vietnam time, early Thursday morning Eastern time). After spending time with her, they'll go back to the hotel for the night.
On Friday (noon-ish Vietnam time, very early in the morning Friday Eastern) he and Cupcake will celebrate their G&R (for more info on what that is, and what Tom will be doing on his trip, check out this excellent article), and Tom will leave the orphanage with Cupcake.
As soon as I hear anything, I will post. I am hoping he can give me a call from the orphanage so I can hear Cupcake for just a second, talk to her for the very first time. Tom's sister works for Verizon so she managed to snag us a few world-wide cell phones. At over $2 a minute, they aren't cheap, but I'd love to get some sort of info as soon as he can make time to get in touch I just want to hear her breath. Isn't that silly? I just want to hear her make slurpy baby noises. Little mouth breathing. For some reason I have been wondering what she sounds like when she's just being HER.
Both Tom and his mom have promised to take a lot of digital photos, and Tom's mom promised me she would jot down little details about each day so I can do journal posts for everyone, in addition to me being up-to-date on what's going on. I hope when they get to their hotel later today, they can get online and send me some updates.
I think I'm okay- I feel kinda weird. I'm exhausted from the last few days, and I banged my head earlier on the coffee table (swift, but now I get why babyproofing is so important- it HURT!!), so I think that's contributing to how I feel. It still doesn't seem real. I think it will all sink in, though, when I hear him say "she's amazing."
More as soon as I hear anything... I'm going to bed to read and rest my noggin'. I don't imagine there will be much sleeping tonight.
