{"id":184,"date":"2013-10-10T02:10:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2013-10-10T02:22:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:22:56","slug":"bringing-nicholas-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?page_id=184","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Nicholas Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Welcome Home for the First Time<\/h1>\n<p>I recently had the pleasure of helping my clients bring home their new baby boy! I\u2019ve never had the opportunity to work with adoptive parents in bringing their new son or daughter home, but this experience was really special.<\/p>\n<p>I received a call from Abbie, who was in the process of adopting a child from South Korea. She and her husband had completed the massive amount of paperwork involved, but hadn\u2019t found a travel agent they trusted with the most important part of the process \u2013 bringing their baby home.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as Abbie received the \u201ctravel call,\u201d meaning all the hurdles had finally been cleared and their baby was ready to come home, I set to work finding flights to Seoul. Unfortunately, it was the same week as our local school\u2019s Spring Break, so most flights were full. After numerous phone calls and emails, we finally settled on an itinerary that would allow the new parents time with their son and some sightseeing while they were there.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine navigating a new country, dealing with jet lag, learning a new language, discovering new food, AND bringing home a baby? What a great souvenir!<\/p>\n<p><em>Kind words from Abbie and her husband: After calling multiple travel agents and searching the web, we happened upon Cindy\u2019s website and were impressed by her personal travel experience and the professional appearance of her website.\u00a0 We gave her a call and through our conversation I knew that she was the one to trust with our travel arrangements. \u00a0Yes, we ran into some scheduling difficulty with Spring Break, but Cindy was relentless with her effort to find the best flight for us working within our parameters for the adoption.\u00a0 She was very prompt with returning phone calls and e-mails, and really understood the urgency with which we needed to finalize our plans.\u00a0 She made us feel like we were the most important client despite it being one of her busiest weeks with all the Spring Break vacations she was helping to coordinate.\u00a0 We also felt that she went above and beyond just booking a flight and a hotel for us.\u00a0 She gave us very helpful international travel advice and emotional support throughout the experience.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty impressive that our travel agent called to check in on us once we were back home before our own adoption social worker did!\u00a0 We would highly recommend Cindy to anyone preparing for adoption travel, and plan on using her again for future vacations and maybe even another trip to South Korea!\u00a0 Thank you, Cindy, for all you did to help us become a family!\u00a0 ~Abbie &amp; Kevin<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192\" alt=\"Getting to know each other\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith4.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith4.jpg 750w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting to know each other<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_187\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187\" alt=\"Hotel Commodore Busan\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith1.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel Commodore Busan<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_188\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188\" alt=\"Nicholas on plane\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith2.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas on plane<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_189\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-189\" class=\"size-full wp-image-189\" alt=\"Waiting for flight with Daddy\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith3.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smith3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waiting for flight with Daddy<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Home for the First Time I recently had the pleasure of helping my clients bring home their new baby boy! I\u2019ve never had the opportunity to work with adoptive parents in bringing their new son or daughter home, but this experience was really special. 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