Fourteen Years Ago...

Fourteen years ago tonight...

We hadn't slept in two days, but we didn't want to sleep.
We munched on real Chinese food which included awesome lemon tarts.
We received parental guidance from our guide along with nine other families.
We looked out our hotel window and wondered if we'd really come half way around the world while knowing that we'd found the entire world...

In a little girl who
     wouldn't sleep in the hotel's crib,
     pawed at us with her feet while we tried to sleep in the hotel's bed,
     needed diapers and doting,
     and looked at us wondering "Who are these funny smelling white people?"

She was scared.

We were scared.

But it all worked out in the end.

....

Tonight,

Omegadotter listen's to hip hop,
Omegamom relaxes and reads,
And I wait for pizza to be delivered.

Life is strange.
Life is weird.
Life is a wet hoola-hoop spinning off water drops that catch rainbows in the sun.

Sometimes, she's still scared, we're still scared, and some things still smell funny.

But we have hoola-hoops.
We have water drops.
We have rainbows.
And we have the sun.