We have finally arrived home!

I awake from my comfy bed with a slight Benadryl hangover to write our final blog. We have finally arrived home from our long and inspiring journey to Nepal. After an "eventful" beginning to an 8 hour flight from Kathmandu to Turkey we raced through a gauntlet of airport security checks to get to our next flight....that's right amazing race style and thankfully due to the size of our group they held the plane so that we didn't have to spend the night in Turkey!! We then endured a 12 hour flight.....which I do not wish on my worse of enemies to get to Chicago....after several meals, movies, "plane" walking to prevent clots, and head-bobbing naps we landed! To our surprise customs was not too bad and ALL our luggage arrived with us!!! Many of the group members met loved ones at the gate and they others made their way to the bus station for one more mode of transportation till they arrived home. For me just 1 more 3 1/2 hour flight from Chicago to Phoenix. I must say that after a crazy and inspiring trip I am just now able to reflect on how much this short but packed journey has accomplished. I must first say that for an assessment trip we did much more than I could imagine.....from seeing and treating over a 100 people at our medical camp, to providing school supplies, backpacks and warm greeting letters from children in Wisconsin to the 87 school aged children at Chunidevi School, to seeing all the sights, sounds, smells, and flavors or Nepal whether from the back of an elephant, by foot, by gondola, or by bus. I must say this trip would not be possible without such an amazing group of staff and students that made this trip what it was as well as the many support people we met along the way that helped plan this trip and make our dreams possible. We want to thank not only Hope Without Borders for the platform and inspiration to do what we did but also Concordia University for sharing in our dreams along with the Medical college for lending us an amazing medical director! I want to also thank each and every student for choosing Nepal over the other trips it would not have been the same without you all!! Also, Rabi Bista for making sure we got to do what we dreamt of doing while in Nepal. And last but not least Dr. Bista from Grande Hospital, Dr. MacKinney from Patan Hospital, Anil our ever talented tour guide, Sandeep and Amun for watching out for us on our trip, S. Nature resort in Chitwan, and lastly Hotel Ganesh Himal for surviving our group :)And last but not least our amazing family and friends who loyally visited our blog, donated time, money, and supplies and supported us along the way! We will be posting a link shortly so that you can all see the pictures we captured along the journey. We hope that his is just the beginning to a long and fruitful relationship with the people of Nepal!! Once again Namaste and dhanybhad (thanks) from the Nepal group!!!