USA

Let me think were did I leave off yesterday. Oh yes, Maille is "my" baby to look after and she is absolutely adorable. By now I think she loves me o) we played together after lunch and than Aden and her got tired but unwilling to take a nap. However, I was doing a pretty good performance of eye rubbing and decided that I needed a nap to manage to stay awake for the show. Mike's parents came by and I said hi and went off to bed than. Mandy let me sleep for about an hour and than I had someone crawling all over me: Aden! Only I don't think he realized who he was crawling over since he gave me such a surprised look o) Cutie!!! I don't carry anything with me to get all dressed up for the theatre. Sweety, I was wearing the direct opposite from the time we went out; a pair of jeans, hiking boots and a pullover! But hey this is USA and anything is possible. We grabbed a bite since Mandy and I were running late and enjoyed "Les Miserable" in Danbury. The theatre was freshly renovated, acoustics were great and the show was fabulous. A really great evening out! Before we left we bumped into Mike who was just returning from a business trip. When we got back he was still up. We were all tired and went off to bed.
Seems kiddos had other plans during the night and kept them awake while I slept through until this morning. I watched some TV and wrote you a few lines Sweety and than decided to go downstairs. They were both in the playroom and both gave me a good morning smile. Maille wanted to be picked up and cuddled for a bit. We played for a while, breakfast time than and more playtime. Since they didn't sleep very long tonight I am hoping for some extensive nap time right now. Mandy looks like she could really use some sleep and Aden is being an angel and is sleeping. I am monitoring the baby phone for Maille and she is also still asleep. My chance to write some more here o)

I woke up really early like 6am on Wednesday morning and was starting to be really excited, nervous if I had really packed everything. Claudia when you called I was basically trying to put on my socks, copy some tracks to the ipod ... and get going. I told you that I would be buying a book at the airport and things would be relaxed instead we were in for a surprise. My Mum and I picked up my brother and we drove to the airport. When I was standing in line for the business class check-in I got asked twice if I had a business class ticket (just because you carry a backpack o)) I gave them my e-ticket and was waiting for them to process it. The lady than went well there is a problem with your flight you see you are flying out to Guatemala City 27.03. but to Atlanta 28.03. I went well but that is impossible since I have to fly from NY-Atlanta than Atlanta-Guatemala City. They had to call some hotline and than turned around and said well the schedules have been changed and the flight to Guatemala City 28.03. has been cancelled. Great! In the end they booked me on the flights for the 29.03. Now I got my ticket to NY and was surprised that the time on there was also something different than expected. It meant I had to board immediately! Great going!!! So it was a very quick good-bye to Mum and Dominic and I felt a bit cheated. It took me half an hour to reach my gate and than got told to board. Once on board and having settled in I realized this is really it - the journey is beginning, bye-bye Europe for 6 months!
The flight itself was uneventful. Carino, the movies were so bad that I decided sleep is better. The food was great though and a glass of wine to top it off put me right to sleep. I had no chance to play with my ipod or worry about not having a book to read. The flight was over quickly and we made good time and arrived even earlier than expected.
My luggage with the priority sticker was there in no time. Cleared customs with no problem, shuttle arrived 10 minutes later to take me to Connecticut. Thanks Mike for arranging that. The guy had to pick up someone else and we were on our way, missed the rush hour traffic but ended up standing in a traffic jam in CT for no good reason. I made good time and arrived at the drop off point around 5pm. Had a small fight with the pay phone until someone helped me and told me that I had to use the other one because the provider didn't support a state call. o;((( I managed to reach Mandy and she came by to pick me up. At around 6pm I arrived at hers and got to meet her Mum and the kiddos. We chatted for a while and I was trying hard not to fall asleep too soon. I was proud that I managed to stay up until 9.30pm and than we went to bed. I woke up of course in the middle of the night because I heard them but they weren't crying hard so I turned around again. At 6.30am though I was wide awake and watched a bit of TV before getting up. We had breakfast and playtime with Aden and Maille. They seem to like me o)) Now it is their nap time so I thought perfect to quickly update my blog!