We're back from China, with a brand new American citizen, Rebecca Dong Lan. No problems coming back, except I didn't know that when our bags were cleared after customs, all we had to do was put them back on another conveyor at a special station they had there for domestic connections. We carted our bags over to the next ticket counter, and the agent told us about that, and said now you have to go through security again. Line was about 100 feet long, and our flight was leaving in about an hour, and the xray machine goes down! Service is returned soon, and I'm telling myself over and over "don't fret! you're gonna get home tonight" Sure enough, last night almost exactly at 9:00 pm our plane lands, with our luggage too. Some really great friends from our church (one of whom had also adopted a girl from China about four years ago) are there to meet us, along with Amy's really great mom who gave us a lift home, since we were quite unable to drive. I'll post more later after recovering. We were flying about 24 hours (from Guangzhou to Beijing, then to Los Angeles, then to Philadelphia), but of course with the time zone change, our adjusted watches said the flight only took 12.