Back to where the cows moo

2 days after we celebrated my birthday on June 14th we headed back to where the cows moo as Brooklyn put it. Otherwise known as Idaho. Since Annalee was not able to fly back with us she sent two of her children with us Brooklyn (9) and Rylee (6). Our flight was scheduled to leave at 11 and we heard it had been really busy at the airport so we woke up at six that morning and left by 7 so we were there by 8. Annalee quickly dropped us off since she was in 10 min parking and we proceeded to check in. The lady was very concerned as to why we had two children with different last names. We had there orders, passports, birth certificates, and a note from there mother but she still did not completely understand. The language barrier did not help in the situation either. Anyways one guy was worried about my backpack not being a personal item and she was worried about the kids and then everyone was all so confused that they just let us go. We finally made it to our gate only to find out the plane had been delayed 2 hours. So we sat... and sat some more... and played some madlib on the computer and sat some more... oh then it was delayed another 45 minutes. Around 2 we were finally able to board the plane.

We did not have seats together so I sat with Rylee and Kevin sat with Brooklyn. We spent a lot of time walking back and forth between seats though. Rylees TV did not work so after bugging the flight attendants 100 times and getting no results we just gave up. We took turns watching shows and watched some together. Rylee slept a little bit on this flight and so did Brooklyn. Kevin and I however did not get much shut eye.

Because of the layover our connecting flight in Detroit was going to be close. We rushed to security only to wait 45 minutes to get through. And even when we told them we were trying to make a close flight the security people still took there sweet time talking to us and telling us stories. We then rushed to pick up our luggage take it through security. This was the challenging part. We had 8 bags because the girls could each bring 2 and Kevin and I had 2 big ones and 2 small rolling ones. We gave one to Rylee 2 to Brooklyn, Kevin had 3 and I had 2. By this time Rylee was in tears because she couldn't drag her suit case Brooklyn switched with her but it did not change the situation. We just continued to run as I told Rylee that there was nothing we could do about it right then. After checking the bags we took off RUNNING! We ran and made it to our gate only to be told it was closed and we were not on it anyways. I guess when we had the layover Delta rescheduled us to a later flight.

So we scrambled for some change so we could use the the pay phone and tell our family we would be in later. We then let the girls use up some of there bottled up energy and run the wrong way on the flat escalators. Kevin and I rested since we were both sweating and exhausted after our run. We then got some snacks and headed to our new departure gate.

We attempted to stay awake the next flight but it did not work. We all fell asleep and we were a little worried we were going to have to carry the girls off because they were not waking up. After lots of nudging and tickling and pushing and poking we got them up and out. We had a short layover in Salt lake and then boarded our final flight 24 hours later.

When we arrived home we were all exhausted but so happy to see all the family there waiting for us. Luckily we did not have to much jet lag and we were able to get a goods nights rest and adjusted to the time very well.