Back in the USA

We arrived back in the USA on Sunday, November 9th.

A friend dropped us at the train station and we took the train to the airport. The kids behaved themselves in the airport. This was our first plane trip without Lilli's car seat. So she got to sit in the plane seat. She figured out how to unbuckle the seatbelt pretty quickly. Because she wasn't in the car seat, she didn't sit as high up and so she couldn't see the video screen as well. Consequently, she spent much of the NINE HOUR plane ride in MY lap. Ugh! On the way back I will have to stack all the pillows and blankets in her seat so that she can see her OWN video screen. Since Lilli was sitting in my lap I had to watch age-appropriate videos. The kids movies were Wall-E and Finding Nemo. We've got Finding Nemo at home, and we had seen Wall-E this summer (and I didn't find it very exciting.) However, they also had Mamma Mia! So we watched that for most of the plane ride. As much as I like that movie, I think three times in a row is a little much.

Of course, neither Tipton nor Lilli slept on the plane.

The kids were very excited to see Grama Kay and Papa waiting for them when we came through baggage claim.

We managed to keep the kids awake on the drive "home" (Grama and Papa's house) by making them sing silly songs. Once home, we started getting dinner ready. The kids were just barely awake enough to eat a few bites before begging to go to bed. They were in bed, asleep, by 6:00. Dave and I weren't far behind them...