A new city.. A new hotel..

Nearly 3000km later, we are in St. John's safe and sound. We had a few bumps along the way, but nothing that us experienced calm parents couldn't handle - yeah right, who am i kidding. ;)

Started the day with the girls awake by 8 - early start to a long day.. Had our Timmies, and got the rooms empty one by one. The girls got to ride with just seatbelts in the taxi van - you can just imagine how happy they were about that. Two airport trolleys to carry all the stuff - 2 huge suitcases, 1 small suitcase, 3 carseats, 2 backpacks, 1 briefcase, 1 stroller, purse, camera, and 3 kids!! It probably looked like we were moving with all that stuff. Got everything checked except the stuff coming on the plane. Definitely lightened the load quite a bit. And having the stroller with a babe that would rather walk makes carrying all the goods easy - put it all in the empty stroller.

The girls got to watch the plane we were going to board land, and then watch all the baggage get unloaded. You would never think a sight that simple would keep 2 little girls completely amazed for so long. Too bad the littlest one could care less, and she would rather go her own way.

The first flight went completely uneventful. Daddy got to sit beside never ending questioning Kat. And Mommy sat with Dani on her lap and Ellie beside her. Dani fell asleep nursing shortly after take off.. Ellie fell asleep about 40 minutes into the flight.. So mommy's one arm was holding lying down Dani fast asleep.. her other arm, stretched out across the seat to Ellie - who had both arms wrapped around mommy's arm, and her head nestled nicely just above the elbow. Mommy was quite stuck.

Play time when we landed, and got some food in everyone. And of course, leave it to our girls to meet a new friend during the short time between flights. A little girl, probably a little older than Kat played with them, and then ended up sitting infront of us on the plane.

Can i just add here, that we had absolutely perfect flying weather. it was a shame that the girls (especially Ellie) were too short to really enjoy the fabulous view from the plane, but Kat enjoyed it every time we turned.

Second flight.. Had doubts that it would go as well as the first.. Dani refused to nap, and at several points refused to even nurse.. I'm sure if she was the boss she would have been touring the aisles talking to everyone that smiled in her direction. Too bad mommy wouldn't agree to that plan. But finally got her to sleep about 50 minutes into the flight - phew. unfortunately, that was just the start of the fun. Starting to descend, and oh poor Ellie belly.. The gravol just didn't last long enough. Threw up.. not once.. not twice.. but three times. Poor girl! The flight attendants were great, and had dry and wet napkins there quickly. And luckily I had a sweater in her bag so as soon as we landed, got her out of the tshirt, and into a clean dry sweater.. The pants would have to wait though.
Then the next pit fall. Got two carseats, and one suitcase when the whole carousel stops. Completely! we had time for 2 bathroom breaks (Kat and then Daddy), and then get the car keys for the rental before the rest of the baggage from the flight was delivered by HAND to the carousel. So it was a long wait. But luckily the first suitcase we got had the girls clothes in it, so i was able to get Ellie out of the stinky clothes.
Finally have all our stuff, and out to the van.. Yup, VAN! To those who know Steph well enough, this is basically a prison sentence to him. This will be the one and only time that we get to enjoy the space of a van.. Unless they change an SUV into a van that is. ;)

I cannot emphasize this enough - before leaving the airport, make sure you know where the hotel is, and how to get to it. LOL Enough said about that. We did make it though, me posting makes that obvious.

What a disappointment this hotel "suite" is though. They call this a suite.. but really it's the size of a normal 2 bed room, but with walls built around the second bed to make it into 2 "rooms". So one room has the bedroom (double bed), livingroom (tv center), dining room (table with 2 chairs), and very little space to walk between any of them. The girls "room" has the bunk beds (2 single), and a desk, with no space to walk. Then of course the bathroom. I would definitely not call this a suite. We will probably scout other hotels to see if we can find a bigger suite to allow some space so we don't go insane with absolutely no personal space to be found in this one.

And now, even though the laptop says 1030.. i believe it's nicely past midnight, and it's time to hit the sack.

We get to go to our new house tomorrow (today?), and get the keys!! So another exciting day tomorrow!!

Bye for now! ;)