First leg done

We made it as far at Atlanta! Smooth flying. The new Leapsters and Ninentendo DS are a HUGE hit, surprise, surprise. Sparky actually just colored in her new princess coloring book the entire flight. We walked right to the hotel shuttle (with ALL of our bags since the Delta agent I spoke with on the phone a few days ago was WRONG and we could not check everything through to Shanghai) and as we were checking in, my mom's friend Elaine who lives in Atlanta was just a few steps behind us for a visit.

The kids all swam, distributed the contents of their neatly packed carry-ons all over the room, and had some hotel dinner. Elaine graciously drove me to find something more exciting for dinner, and I came back with Taco Bell. :)

And Megan got into our house to tend to the dogs after her boss (thank you SO much, Wendy!) and her boss's boss as the fireman who responded to the call to break into the house after the town policeman authorized the break-in by the fire dep't. Our friend Wendy swept in to give them the correct code to the automatic garage door keypad seconds before the fireman (her boss) broke the lock with an ax. PHEW! Can you tell we never actually lock-up?!


So one last swim for the boys to tire them out for bedtime and hopefully we'll all get some sleep tonight.

Next stop...Shanghai!