It's Done!

Today we had our retrieval and it went very well! We ended up with a dozen eggs (haha) and were back in our hotel room by noon. I feel great--no soreness at all! I was extremely groggy afterwards; I think they are used to anesthetizing little five foot Indian women and may have overcompensated for five foot nine inch me! Needless to say, we ordered room service and I slept the afternoon away.

We signed all the surrogacy contracts prior to the retrieval and they will mail us our copies after the surrogate and her husband signs them. They will inform us via email how many embryos we come out with for transfer.

We were unable to switch our flight to Saturday night as we were hoping. We found out that we have to stay in India until Monday night--otherwise we would have had to pay change fees and take first class seating, which made it just too pricey to change. So, we decided to fly to Goa in the morning and fly back to Mumbai on Monday afternoon. The Maratha hotel has a refreshment suite for showering and resting between flights and will hold most of our baggage, so it should work out well.

We really wanted to get home, but we will settle for a trip to see the beautiful beaches of India instead. We are staying at the Park Hyatt Goa Resort and Spa for two nights. I have heard wonderful things about Goa; a lot of Mumbiakars go to Goa for the weekend. It's about a 10 hour drive, but there are sleeper buses that leave in the evening and arrive in the morning. Bob was trying to convince me to do that or even to take the overnight train. I thought the one-hour flight would be the wiser choice!

The locals tell us that it's too hot in Goa now for them! Bob looked up the weather in Goa; it says its 93 degrees but feels like 106 degrees. Yeah, that's hot... Mumbai is 96 today, but only feels like a cool 101.