Wow. I just looked at the blog, and I am way more behind then I thought! I'm going to try and catch you all up. After Jared's graduation and all that, we went back to Ohio and Mat picked up Breanna from Louisiana. We spent a few days in Ohio, and In PA with Mat'sfamily, then headed back home to Belgium! We took a military flight back from Maryland to Belgium, it was their commercial airline, so it was a pretty nice flight. Except that neither of the girls felt like sleeping the entire time... We flew into germany again, and walked around Ramstein and got some German food then were on our way home. Its about a 4 hour drive and luckily both the girls slept a while on the way there. We got home and showed Breanna her room, and she played with the dogs and we all settled in. We spent the next two months enjoying having her here, we went to the zoo quite a few times, she really enjoyed being able to pet the lemurs and even fed the little monkeys some grubs, she was pretty brave :) The best part of the summer was our trip to euro disney, in Paris!
We planned the trip to be just an overnight thing to Paris, we drove up on tuesday, and checked into our hotel that was about 20 mins away from Disneyland. and drove into Paris! Mat has been there before when he was a kid, but it was a first for all of the girls :) I was really excited to be going to see the eifel tower, and Disneyland. We parked by the NotreDame, and walked ALL THE WAY to the Eifel tower! It was exhausting, luckily we brought two strollers so both the girls could ride. We saw a lot of neat stuff in Paris, and I'll post the pics :) It was fun to just wander around, until we found the eifel tower, which is huge! breanna was so excited when we found it! On the way back to the car, we ran into a little fair, and stopped for some food, and enjoyed looking around at paris at night. we made it back to the car and drove back to the hotel, and we all fell asleep very quickly!
We woke up pretty early the next morning, and got breakfast at the hotel and headed to Disney! I think I was just as excited as breanna! It was a nice day to be out, not too hot, not cold, and we went on a weekday so it wasnt too crowded. The nice thing was that everyone who worked there spoke english, so even though it smelled like france..it didnt sound like it lol. We rode a lot of rides, and saw the parade. Breanna even got to be part of it! "Mary Poppins" brought a bunch of kids into the parade and she got picked, and danced around with them to zippedy doo da. I think she really had a good time! We were sad when we had to leve, but the plans are already set for next year, when Kay will be able to enjoy it a little more too.
Disney was really the last hurrah of the summer. We had to head back to Ramstein to catch a flight back to the east coast to take Breanna home :( The plan was just to take a hop back to the east coast, hopefully have someone pick us up and head to ohio. That didnt really work out the way we planned though.. it took 3x as long to get out of germany than we expected. every time we have gone on space a its only taken us a day or two to get out. this time it took us a week!!! We spent way too much time in that tiny airport terminal on base... We had to be there so early in the morning to hopefully catch a flight, and every time we had to pack up all our things and bring all our luggage into the terminal and check in for the day. we spent a lot of time in the family lounge, sleeping, and letting the girls blow off some energy. they have cribs and a couch in there so both the girls could nap, as long as there wasnt another annoyingly loud family in there, which there usually was... we spent a lot of time walking around the mall on base, but even that got old after a while, we were sooooo ready to leave. we went swimming and tried to keep the girls occupied, both mat and I felt bad for keeping them at the airport for that long.
We finally got on a plane, after waiting way too long! we flew on a cargo plane, that has the sideways seats that fold up and all the cargo in the middle.. .Breanna was a little freaked out by it, since its way louder than a commercial plane. But she found a buddy with the army guy that was sitting next to her. He was on his way home from Afghanistan and he was so nice, he told her the plane was ok, and nothing was wrong even though it was bumpy and loud, he showed her pictures of his puppies, and even gave her one of his patches. I think she had a pretty big crush on him! Kay slept almost the whole time, but breanna did not want to cooperate and had a very rare temper tantrum on the plane. We had a layover in Bangor, Maine, and they got to run around in the terminal for a while, so i think that helped both of them a bit. We had to rent a car and drive 4 hours into ohio, we flew into indiana.
We made it to mat's mom's house finally and a few days later had kayleighs first birthday party. it was really nice. she had an elmo cake, and all of mat's family came and she got a lot of presents and it was just a really nice night. She got a little overwhelmed with all the prestents and then the cake but i thnk overall she had fun. I still cant believe she's already a year old!
We spent a few days in Ohio, then had to make our way to louisiana to take breanna home, that was awful. we always hate saying goodbye, and the drive was long, and hot. After we dropped her off, we headed to colorado, which again,was a very long drive. and I never want to do that much traveling ever again! We made it to my parents house and the plan was to stay about a week, then mat was going to go to a school for work in missouri, and i was going to stay at my parents house for the rest of the month and thenwe'd fly bck home. that worked about as well as flying out of germany....
Mat's school suddenly got cancelled and he was out of leave so he had to go home asap. so we made the decision to drive back to ohio and catch a hop back to belgium. we drove back, but there were absolutley NO FLIGHTS going out, every day we'd wait and hope for something but there would be one flight with 2 seats, if we were lucky, and we couldnt get on one. so mat had to buy a ticket back home so he could go back to work. Kay and I had to stay i n OHio for a while longer before we had the money to pay for a flight for us to go back. I was rather proud of myself for mastering international air travel by myself with a one year old though :).
So that is a quick, very quick recap of the past few months... I will post some pictures tonight. but kay just woke up from her nap.. so this is to be continued :)
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