Home Again!

After an excrutiatingly long day doing an airport shuffle (and we were on a direct flight), we are home! Love the weather ... it's so warm and sunny today. My favorite moment was looking out the plane window and seeing the mountain ranges as we started our final turn into Seattle. So beautiful!


The luggage - long story, suffice it to say if I never have to pack 50lb bags again and shuffle them around Heathrow and SeaTac, it will be too soon.

Huge thanks to both our folks for meeting us at the airport & helping shuffle us and our stuff to Dan's folks. My mom went the extra mile and got the emissions + tabs renewed on the car and cleaned it as well. Talk about a sight for sore eyes - I didn't realize how much I missed it! Dan's folks are being super gracious in welcoming us in their home until we figure out our next step(s). We can't thank you enough for everything you have done to support us during the past year.

Another shout out to everyone who called us before we left London. Thank you for the farewells and the good wishes for our journey. We will miss you all (yes, even you, Phillip).

Everyone is healthy and happy - the kids are simply thrilled to be home. None of us slept well the 72-hours before departure and none of us really slept on the flight either. Tiredness seems to be a great antidote to jet lag. That said, I'll let you all guess who had the pleasure of getting up with the kids at 5:45 this morning. ;-)

Sophia finally gave up and fell asleep at Heathrow. Wish I could do that!

We're thrilled to be home. Realize now how huge our roads really are... as well as the cars on them.

Dan in all tiredness drove my car home last night. In a dazed, sleepy slur, he tried explaining to our folks how confusing it is to be driving on the right side of the road in a left-hand drive car after spending 3-months in the UK in a left-hand drive RV but driving on the left side of the road; except for the past week, where he was driving a right-hand drive car but on the left side of the road... you figure it out. He's all mixed up and has to conciously think about which lane to turn in to! Thank goodness for insurance.

Ciao for now!