North Carolina - Part 1

I picked up AK from school during her nap on Thursday... broke rule #1 of parenthood... never wake a sleeping child. Oh well. AK was pretty groggy and dopey for a while but she perked up pretty quickly when I told her we'd be going on the airplane soon. Charmain dropped us off at the airport... and very very kindly came back about 10 mins later to take me back home to pick up my "permission to travel" letter that allows me to travel with AK... (although US Immigration, OF COURSE, didn't ask for it when I entered the country, they surely would have asked for it if I'd left it behind!). Our first flight was uneventful, AK enjoyed snacking on different things and asked for OJ when the drink cart came around. She was pretty excited to be on the plane and kept telling me to "turn the airplane off" and "turn the airplane on" and she really enjoyed looking out the window and thought it was great that we were above the clouds. I really wish she could look out the window as we take off and land but unfortunately she's too short and needs to sit with her seatbelt buckled.

We got through immigration and customs just fine and rechecked the suitcase. The Charlotte airport is not that large and we had plenty of time to go through security again and AK even had some time to sit and have supper before we boarded the next plane. Boarding went as expected then we sat on the plane for about an hour while the pilots tried to contact the grounds crew to find the airplane log book to figure out what maintenance was being done so that we could find out when we'd take off! Painful... we killed the time by going to the washroom twice and having even more snacks.

Luckily I had put a pull-up on AK for this flight, just in case, as she pooped upon landing. Nice... Our first order of business at the Raleigh airport was to find a bathroom and fix that mess! When AK saw Anna waiting, she ran right into her arms :) I don't think there was any doubt in our minds that AK remembered her! I thought AK may be a wee bit shy... but nope! We hung out for a bit when we got to Anna's house, AK was a bit more shy with John and she wasn't really interested in Baby Liam when Anna brought him out of the bedroom for his nighttime feed. AK settled into bed quite easily, she must have been pooped as it was 10pm our time when she got settled in after some milk and cheese for a snack.

Here's a sneak peek at what we woke up to on Friday morning!!!
I'm off to bed soon so you'll have to wait for more stories on our weekend! The fun has only started... xo