Happy New Year's Eve

We're back in warm and sunny Florida. The trip back went fine. It was nice to go through security at a tiny airport rather than a big one (even if they did make the boys take off their Robeez to go through the scanner and swabbed their bottles to check for explosives!) Aunt Mary Ellen even came by to say goodbye to the little guys.

Delta had originally put the little guys in their own rows, which wasn't going to work, so the gate agent switched us around. It was a little puddle-jumper prop plane, but the last row had four seats -- so we all got to sit in the same row! It was awesome, and even more awesome was that the babies slept for all of that flight. Our Orlando flight was overbooked, but in practice that meant that they switched us so we were all together again rather than being separated by a couple of rows, and we also got to pre-board, which was really helpful. The flight attendants were also great. Mike sat between the boys and I was across the aisle. Mike made extensive use of the DVD player for Mattie, and had to turn his seat a little so he wasn't kicking the cranky lady in front of him, but it worked out. (We didn't have time to change his diaper before the flight, though, so it leaked all over his outfit and I got to change it and his outfit from my seat, since the seatbelt light was on -- I think I should get some parenting bonus points for that! Fortunately I had tolerant seatmates in my aisle.)

Just when we thought we had it made, we realized when we arrived in Gainesville that we had left one of our suitcases on the curb in Orlando. Ugh! We had visions of them blowing it up to make sure it wasn't a bomb, or putting us on the terror watch list. Fortunately none of that happened; it's just at the lost and found and we'll get it when Nora and Adrian fly in there in a few days.

By leaving when we did, we missed the famous Wing Night at Club Eden, but we also missed the blizzard with ice, wind, and snow that would have kept us there several more days. (Mike is disappointed that we didn't get stranded there!)

But I'm enjoying the 70 degree weather here -- we took the boys to the playground today and didn't even need coats! And we spent a nice New Year's Eve with family friends, though it looks like Mike and I will be the only ones up at midnight.

Happy New Year to you all!