Back In The USA

This post is a little late since we have been back in the states for over a week and a half now! I've finally gotten some down time to write about our trip home. We left on a Thursday on the bi-weekly scheduled military flight back to Norfolk, VA. Our flight was supposed to leave at 8pm but didn't end up leaving until 10pm. Then we headed to Rota, Spain for a little layover. We ended up with seats in the middle of the plane and in a row of three, so Braydon was in between Mommy and Daddy. The flight to Spain is about 3 hours. Our plain was to keep Braydon awake until we got back on the flight and headed to the US, but guess what? that didn't happen! They gave us a snack when we first got on the plane and then Braydon crashed. We had to wake him up when we arrived in Spain and needless to say he wasn't happy. Not only did we wake him up but it was 1am and he had to stay awake until 3am!

Once we finally were able to get back on the plane we got another meal and luckily Braydon crashed again. This time he was able to sleep as long as he would like. Both Chris and I tried to sleep but anyone who has traveled overseas can agree that sleeping in coach seats is not very easy. Braydon slept for a few hours but when he woke up he wanted to get off the plane and we still had a about three hours left. Luckily he watched some dvd's and we got breakfast then we landed in Norfolk. Once in Norfolk we had to go through customs and then catch a cab and head to the commercial terminal and fly to Baltimore then onto Chicago.

After the cab dropped us at the commercial terminal we had about 2 hours to kill before our flight. We got some Starbucks and let Braydon watch the planes. Braydon did great on the first flight to Baltimore, it didn't hurt that the flight is really short. Then we had a layover in Baltimore where we got some lunch and watched some more planes before our flight to Chicago. Braydon fell asleep on the flight to Chicago and didn't want to wake up to get off the plane. I ended up having to carry him off the plane! He finally woke up when we told him he was going to see Papa! Dad picked us up and we got to finally relax and not worry about planes anymore for quite awhile!