We are in Miami!

We had some good busy last days in Sweden before we left. Mormor and morfar came to Stockholm and spent a lot of time with the boys so that me a Alex could focus on getting the house ready to rent out and pack.

Last ride in the tractor/trailer :-)

Noah followed big brother out in the bushes. Regretted it!

We were very exited to go on the plane to Florida, our first direct flight to Florida and with the new Dream liner!! It surely had some fun and useful technical solutions. Will tell you later!

 

Mormor and morfar drove us to the airport with our big load of bags (7 pieces to check in and 3 carry ons...). The flight was two hours late but we did not mind. Gave us time to have some food and buy some gifts for small friends in Florida :-) But of course, even though we had so much extra time we were still late to the gate and I did not have time to get my Swedish candy that I was planning on buying :-( We were definitely not the last people at the gate but Alex had to go through on extra security check so eventually we were the very last people to get on. At least it was not our fault!

 

Well on the plane we got to explore the new features of the Dream liner. There was nothing to pull down for the window but instead you could "tint" the window, make it darker, to avoid the sun light. If you wanted to order something extra to eat/drink you did on the touch screen, where you also slid you card to pay, and they delivered it shortly after.

 

We had paid extra for proper food and it was server soon after take off. Noah sat on my lap and it got kind of wet, warm after a while... His diaper had leaked... Good my pants was kind of thin and dried kind of quickly :-/ Noah got some new clothes and was happy again! The rest of the flight went very smoothly and we arrived well in Ft Lauderdale, about 1h 15min late. Farfar was there to pick us up.

 

This is when the problems started... My turn to go through an extra security check and we all had to sit in a room and wait for them to do what-ever-they-were-doing-or-checking-up. The boys had slept for a few hours on the plane but it was now about 4am Swedish time so they had a hard time to sit still and behave. I can't blame them! Alex and I did our best to entertain them. Finally, TSA said that everything was ok and we could leave. Time to pick up the bags, which, of course, had to go through and extra screening/check up!!! Farfar had been waiting for 2hours now and we had not even been able to let him know that we were on the way (no cell phones allowed in TSA area). Luckily he had not given up on us! :-) Surprisingly, all the bags fit in the car, except in the stroller that had to go on the roof and we were ready leave. That's when Alex realized that we did not have our passports... They still had them at the extra bag screening. Alex ran in to get them and came back with all of them! Phew!! The traffic jam on the way home seemed like a minor problem after going through US security and we arrived home around 6am Swedish time. Rather tired but happy! Had some food and fell asleep quickly!! Before going to sleep I realized that we had forgotten one bag at the belt so we have to solve that now. Luckily it was the smallest bag, only 5kg, so it has less things than all the other bags!

Trying out the window feature! :-)

Checking out the touch screen :-)

Beautiful sun set close to Florida!

Today we have had a great day so far. Lots of swimming in the pool! Both boys jumping from the side. Marlee without any floating equipment but stays floating doing his dog swim and snorkeling. Noah is now napping but Marlee is "4 years old and then you are never tired"!!! ;-) He did lay down to rest for a while at least!