The flight to NZ

 Its October 4th and we are off to the airport, I could not believe how much luggage we brought - its crazy.

So here we are waiting for the airport - my goodness we added a few extra stories lol,
Once we made it through security we had to go down the escalator and Jaylee decided it was too scary and did not get on with me, I could not stop as I had all the hand luggage I could carry. standing at the bottom there was no getting her to come down on her own or with Kate. so after the other 2 made it down I ran up the double story escalator - took about 2 min to get to her - I was sweating! Just what you want to do right before you get on a plane...
I  then went down with her, just dumped her on the second escalator and came after with the luggage, she was not happy.  I admit I could laugh at the situation at the time, though Erik later telling me that the security guards were probably watching and laughing while it was happening did not help...

 I sat with Jaylee for the first part of the flight, Kate and Anna sat together, so we that worked out well. They were supper excited for their first flight ever.

They managed to keep themselves busy on the flight, so we did well bringing all we did for them to do - though next time we will try and travel much lighter... too much...

 On the train from the national terminal to international.

Our second and final plane - This time the kids had their own tv screens, we got food, I was on the other side of the isle from the 3 so it was trickier, but they were fine. Also the elderly Indian gentleman next to Anna helped her out where he could.  But I did not get much sleep is an understatement. The girls did pretty well and got about 5 - 6 hours sleep.

We made it in one piece - well all except one bag, which was in another plastic bag and I did not see it until Kate said "hey that is my dress" We were all tired. With every line we had to wait at Anna would cry a little more, I had to try and convince her that Oma was waiting right on the other side of the wall. Kate was my champion with helping with pushing the second cart, and being a real big help with a positive attitude, I could not have done it without her. Jaylee was her happy go lucky self who seems to need less sleep then any of us. As soon as we saw Oma and uncle Erik, Anna stopped crying and was happy and I started - lol. for a moment anyway. They slept in the car, also they got over the jet lag instantly, It did take me a few more days... but we made it :)