A Tale of the Travel Day (in photos)

  The adventure started in Grayson, GA, as Andrew and Hilary so generously offered to drive us to the International terminal at Hartsfield in Atlanta.  We left their house around 6:15pm.  About four minutes later, Liam was already out, and slept all the way to the airport.  (Note: This wasn't a good thing.)













After we got there, the slow meltdowns began.  Liam was grumpy about being woken up. Eli was tired. The British Airways check-in line was about 3.2 miles long.  We were SO thankful to have good friends who waited with us and helped with the kids!   We spent a while in line desperately trying to find the children's Benadryl we packed for the journey.  We searched every bag... but never found it.  You can see below how frazzled Ginger was, how unamused I was, how tired Eli was, and how patient Andrew (and Hilary) were!

 Once we got to check-in, everything improved.  Never-Shy Liam made a new friend, and we found out how accurate the Wii-Fit was to weigh all of our bags.  ALL of them were right on 23.0 kgs - the max allowed without overage charges! Whoop whoop!

We were a comical sight with our many bags, pregnant waddle, and sleepy boys; but we made it to the gate, got pajamas on, and life was good.  The boys were super excited about being on the plane and it wasn't long before they were asleep.

 BUT Liam didn't sleep super great.  So he was awake a lot (as was Ginger, who had to walk around often - y'know, being pregnant and all).  She watched two and a half movies, and Liam got to see most of Monsters U again.














Not surprisingly, Liam was tired through border crossing and customs, and kept wanting to lay down.  Eli was a trooper, and kept trying to help.  God was gracious to us through customs - the line was rather long, but after waiting only about 5 minutes, an agent approached me: "Are you with the pregnant lady?"  I am.  "Follow me."  She led us to the front of the line, and we were through pretty quickly.  Hooray!

Eli's picture to the right is his first official picture in England!  The picture at the bottom is the 4 metric kilotons of stuff we brought on the plane.
... And now the REAL adventure begins!