Flying to Norway

   Saturday morning felt like it would go on forever.  I was a bit stressed trying to get everything in the least amount of suitcases as possible but since I'm AMERICAN and proud of it; we had to use all of the suitcases we had ;-).  Luckily we were flying business class so we were allowed two bags each but let me be the first to say :-) we didn't use the 8 bag allowance and one bag was a travel bed and another was a car seat so I think I did well ;-).  It wasn't only the baggage issues I was stressed about, Friday night Marcus started running a fever and then Saturday morning Rebecca started running a fever as well.  I tried to call their pediatrician to schedule a quick visit but the only thing available would have been when we were driving to the airport.  They were both acting ok, then less than 15 minutes before we are getting into the truck to drive to the airport Marcus decides to throw up all over his clothes.  So a quick change of clothes for him and add another outfit to his carry on and we were off to the airport, Jan mentioned me staying back with Marcus.  I thought it would be better to go as a family, there are doctors in Norway, right.
   We board the first flight to Atlanta which went well, despite the tears running down my face as we walked down the jetway.  We landed in Atlanta a little early, so we didn't need to run through the airport to catch our connection to Amsterdam.  I'm sure if we would have landed on time we would have been fine, the airline was trying to give away "airline cash" to passengers who would be willing to take a later flight or even the next day including hotel and meal vouchers.  We agreed that I would sit next to Rebecca and Jan would have Marcus.  Rebecca and I were seated next to one another and she claimed the window seat, but the guys' assigned seats were further back than ours and on opposite sides of the plane both with window seats.  So Jan put Marcus in his correct seat and sat next to him, the man whose seat Jan was sitting in walked up and looked at them…not sure how the exact conversation went but I'm sure he didn't want to sit next to a two year old for 8 hours and he didn't even know he was sick, so thank you man who switched seats.  Rebecca was quite happy in her seat as you can see below…if I didn't know any better I would say she flew business class quite often ;-)

Rebecca relaxing with her iPad & headphones

I think Jan was a bit more stressed than I was on the flight, because with children you never know how many times they will throw up or how frequently.  Rebecca watched Dusty in the movie "Planes," even though PawPaw and Meme had taken the kids to see the movie a few weeks ago.  I was able to watch "The Heat" with Sandra Bullock, then it was time to recline the seats for some sleep.  Let me just say, the duvets and pillows on Delta were wonderful.  I guess Rebecca enjoyed them as well because the poor girl slept through breakfast and I had to wake her before landing.  We had a long lay over in Amsterdam, we watched the fish in the aquarium and made our way to the gate and relaxed, played cars, took walks and I slept for a short time, I was exhausted and needed some sleep.  We boarded our last flight to Norway, Rebecca was excited, Marcus was so tired he fell asleep before we even took off and only woke up just as we landed in Stavanger, Norway.  

Big sister & Little Brother

We gathered all 7 of our bags (not counting our carry-on luggage) and walk through the doors and Bestefar is waiting for us with keys to a second car.  Yes, it takes two cars for us to get to and from the airport in Norway, and I'm sure if we hadn't borrowed my brother's truck (after selling both of our vehicles in the last couple weeks) with his covered bed we would have needed a second vehicle this trip to the airport ;-).   It was nice being able to go to Bestefar's house and relax after a long day flying.