Airplane!

So I am finally getting around to writing about our flight. We have been in the states about a week now: praise God!!!

Our flight did not go exactly as we planned. Phnom Penh to Korea was great. Abigail freaked out when we took off for the first time--a good freak out. She loved flying. Lily didn't even pay attention to it. The flight was in the middle of the night, so the girls basically slept the whole flight. The only thing not so great about it was that I forgot to take some Dramamine before the descent, so I ended up being super sick. We had a seven hour layover in Korea, so I had plenty of time to recover. It is a great airport to have a layover in with children, because there is tons of room, and there are play-places. We were able to put some dance videos on for the girls on my computer, and we basically just waited at our gate. I ended up walking across the airport for some Subway, which was great! We made our flight and took off for our long flight.
One good thing about traveling with small children is that you get put to the front of the line on everything!

The long flight was all right. Kelsi and I sat in the middle and the girls were on either side of us. They again slept most of the flight, and when they were not sleeping, they were watching movies! To the person who thought of putting movies on the backs of seats in planes, I love you. The girls were amazing! Such troopers. When we landed in LAX, we knew that we had only about an hour and a half to make our connection--because our flight was delayed slightly. We were not super confident that we would make this flight, because we had to go through immigration and re-check our bags, and LAX is a terrible airport. We told our flight attendant that we were going to be on a short connection, and so when we landed, they put us on the fast track to go through everything.

We went through immigration, and went to the front of the line on multiple security things, but in the end, having to re-check our bags killed us. By the time we made it to the place to check our bags, they told us that we should just take them to the gate. When we got to the gate, they said that since we did not have our boarding passes, and it was only fifteen minutes to take off, they could not do anything for us. So instead of getting on that plane at 10:15 AM, we were to wait for the next flight at 6:30 PM.

LAX is not a good airport to have a long layover in, and by this point, we had already been traveling for about twenty hours. As we waited for our flight, it got pushed back to seven, and then eight, and then eight thirty. By the time we got on the plane, it was nine. All I can say is you might want to avoid LAX and Delta is not my favorite airline, but that is based on one experience.

All in all, we landed in Kansas City! It was a long journey, but the girls were so excited when they saw their memas and papa standing at the gate. They were so excited about being in America that Abby ran straight to go outside... I don't think that she realized how cold cold could be. When it snowed on Sunday, she picked it up with her bare hand and then said, "That is sooooo cold!" When we played in the snow for the first time, she didn't last one hour. At forty minutes into playing she said, "Daddy, I think we need to go inside... my hands are freezing!!!"

We are blessed to have this time in the states, and we are slowly getting over jet lag--it is much harder when you have a baby! Abby and Lily woke up at two in the morning the second night and said, "We don't want to sleep anymore..." And Melody has been waking up at four in the morning ready to play, after on and off sleeping. I can't complain though, because most babies sleep like that anyway, but Mel usually sleeps through the night! Oh well, in the words of Abby, "We're in America!!!" :)

We would love to see you guys, so please get in touch with us, so we can plan a time to meet up with you! Our email is micah.kelsi@gmail.com

BecauseHeLives,
The Bergens.