We got here in one piece.
We left my mom's house at 5:15 AM Sunday and didn't get to our room in the Navy Lodge until over 26 hours later. Over 16 of those hours were spent on airplanes. I was awake for all 26 of those hours. There was lots of crying. When we were about 4 hours into our 13 hour flight, Abe started screaming for YaYa and I just lost it. Because you know what? I want YaYa too! And we still had 9 hours before we could get off that stupid plane. And we were moving to Japan. I mean what the what?
There were some good things though--since Jason had been in Chaplain school, he was leaving from South Carolina and we were going to meet in Detroit. We both only had one hour layovers there, and I was pretty worried one of us would miss that connection. But we didn't! And Cammie was a champ on the plane. Seriously, she's a straight up traveling champion.
Now that we're here, we're pretty much in our hotel room 24/7 because the kids are totally and completely backwards. We wake up for the day at 2 in the morning, and they are showing no signs of adjusting. At all. We sneak out for a couple of hours in the morning to get some fresh air, and then they fall asleep for hours and hours.
From the tiny bit of time we've spent out of our hotel room, we really like it here. We see little kids riding bikes alone because it's so safe. The weather is rainy, but it hasn't gotten unbearably cold yet. And we made it in time to see some fall leaves in the trees! Before we got here, some lovely people from church snuck in our hotel room and stocked our kitchen for us--which we are beyond grateful for since our kids sleep almost 100% of the time that the commissary is open.
Now that we're here, we're pretty much in our hotel room 24/7 because the kids are totally and completely backwards. We wake up for the day at 2 in the morning, and they are showing no signs of adjusting. At all. We sneak out for a couple of hours in the morning to get some fresh air, and then they fall asleep for hours and hours.
From the tiny bit of time we've spent out of our hotel room, we really like it here. We see little kids riding bikes alone because it's so safe. The weather is rainy, but it hasn't gotten unbearably cold yet. And we made it in time to see some fall leaves in the trees! Before we got here, some lovely people from church snuck in our hotel room and stocked our kitchen for us--which we are beyond grateful for since our kids sleep almost 100% of the time that the commissary is open.
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