God has hand His kind hand all over our little =) travel day. At 4AM we loaded up our Bigs and the SN (Super Nanny) and headed to Omaha for the first leg of our flight. We checked in rapidly and pleasantly at the AA counter and we had over an hour to spare. While waiting for our original flight, We enjoyed (Fresh from my sister/friend Heather's oven) sweet rolls together for the last time as a family of 6. Woo Hoo for homemade sweet rolls and a growing family!!! Our goodbyes with the Bigs and SN were a little teary--only 12 hours later my heart already longs to hole them all again. But those 5 special peeps are gonna do better without us this week than we will without them.
Ok, So I haven't had the privilege of flying the friendly skies (as I recall) since 2002. Ya'll know what that means. . . me and the T*A agents haven't met "personally". Odd at best. I'll leave it there. . .
Aboard our first flight, We were Providentially seated next to an Air force hero. Our title for him not his. He is coming home today from his , Get this, 22nd deployment to the Middle E*st (each being 60-150 days).
We had an incredibly enjoyable 2 hour visit with him discussing everything from the trivial fact that we attended 7th grade 30 minutes from each other in MN to critical spiritual facts about his and our relationships with God and how the Bible says human souls are able to get to heaven.
We are grateful for our military service members. You are top notch.
America is so very blessed to have women and men like our new friend Mark working and sacrificing so much to protect and defend her.
Ahh! Dallas. What a pleasant Airport. Figuring we needed the exercise (no comments please), we chose not to take the cool monorail train and hiked our way to our KA flight gate.
We only had about an hour in between flights. So, by the time we snagged a yummy pretzel from Auntie Somebodies and some DC from Mc Ds (the only place they serve Diet Coke in the whole airport, What's up with that?) We spoke ever so briefly with the Chuck E Cheese hung over Bigs (Thanks SN) And it was time to board the Big Blue Bird to sweet Seoul.
On the gangway to board, I realized we had so little time I forgot to take the now classic photo of the Big Blue Bird for our trip picture library. Hope I remember on the way home. I'll be a little busier then with our beautiful, newest daughter.
Who can believe its finally time? Who can? Such a long wait is coming to a beautiful, albeit bittersweet, conclusion.
We love you, Alyvia! We'll be there tomorrow and we couldn't be happier or more blessed to have you as our new daughter. Simply grateful almost sums it up . . .
O my word!! I almost forgot! You know what our military friend Mark is in the Airforce? He is a Hangul/Korean Linguist. Not! Even! Kidding!!!
Only God . . .=)
