We Made It!

Sophia and I finally made it to Grand Rapids after about 24 hours of travel. Sophia did really well for the most part. She slept quite well on the long flight from Auckland to LA. I let her play in her bassinette for a while before sleeping and she thought it was so cool to be up there looking out at everyone. She was just sitting there laughing. (photo to follow soon hopefully) I did not really sleep at all on that flight, so that was a bummer. Oh well. We had an extra seat next to us which was really helpful. Yay! And a man from STL and his son were on the same flight because they had been speaking and singing and stuff for the missions conference at Covenant church (where we attend), so they offered to help me. They ended up sitting a few rows away from me so I dropped her off while I walked to the toilet and they watched her for me.

I had an older man help me push my trolly around the LA airport which was really difficult to do while also pulling Sophia in her stroller. Sophia kind of broke down a bit on our flight from LA to Chicago, but it's to be expected when she only slept about half (or less) of what she usually does in a night. The man sitting next to me held her and played with her for a while. The woman I sat next to on our very short flight from Chicago to GR held Sophia almost the whole time and Sophia even slept in her arms. The poor girl was so tired she couldn't even eat her cheese. Cheese is probably her favorite food, and she just had a piece of it in her hand and I don't think she had enough strength to bring it up to her mouth.

My bag did not arrive along with the car seat, which is good and bad. It's really good we had the car seat to take her home in from the airport. But it's not cool that I don't have clean clothes for either of us to wear! Oh well. Hopefully it will arrive tonight or tomorrow. For now, I am very thankful I packed one clean set of underwear and my mom (or mum) is loaning me some of her pjs.

Oh, one more funny thing, also with a photo later...I ripped my shirt (the one I'm wearing in my facebook photo) on the way to the airport while I was reaching to do something for Sophia. It was in a random place on the arm, not on a seam or anything. I was wondering if this was foreshadowing for the way the rest of the trip would go. Anyway, I had other clothes in my suitcase but I did not have another button down shirt which I wanted to wear to make certain things easier (use your imagination here) so I kept the shirt on. The hole kept getting bigger and bigger, so when my parents saw me at the airport, they thought I looked pretty rough! Maybe I should stop working out. :)

Ok, that's a lot more than I thought I would write, but thanks to so many people for praying! I am going to bed now. (sorry if this is filled with typos)