Were leaving on a jet plane!!

Found out last night that our 11:48 am flight out of Colorado Springs was cancelled and we now leave at 9:20 am out of Colorado Springs, please arrive 2 hours early for check in.  UGH...we didn't really want those extra 2 hours of sleep.  The kiddos got to skip school today and come to the airport with us.   

Goodbye beautiful Colorado Springs
Hello Denver!

We had a 3 hour layover in Denver!  Brutal to be stuck in Denver for 3 hours.  I spent all my time on the phone with the kids and emailing pictures to them.  Saying good bye in the air port was very hard...I don't want to ever leave them again.  We know we need to one more time though, when we go back to Ethiopia to pick Butula up.  At least Caitlyn will be with me...that will help.  We think it will be so good for Butula to have her sister Caitlyn with her for the trip home.  It will be a good bonding time for them.

                                         Goodbye Rockie Mountains ...

                                        Hello Los Angeles

Yes Los Angeles, CA.  We flew 3 hours to LA just to board an International flight to Dubai.  Because of that little jaunt we added 6 hours to our flight.  15 hours in the plane to Dubai...brutal!!  Luckly we flew Emirates Air and that flight was pretty amazing.

                                         Bye Bye LA...

                                         Hello Emirates Air...

                                         Our food was amazing for plane food

 This is the 1st class lounge, polished wood grain around those large tv screens, seats that fold out into a bed.  That would be the was to travel.

This is a picture of my tv screen.  The line shows our flight pattern.  We could watch a GSP of our flight tracking through or travel.  It was depressing at some points to see how far we still had left to go.  15 hours on a plane is a long time.  The nice thing was that the kept feeding us.  At on point I even turned down the pizza I was offered and opted for just a candy bar.  You know me I never turn down food but I was FULL!!  The food just kept coming and coming and it was all included.  I was even given a bottle of red wine with my dinner which I couldn't finish either because the bottle was so big.  Paul  was even able to eat because they offered so many different options that we were able to pick a mostly gluten free option for him. 

We had over 50 different newer released movies to choose from.  We were able to watch 2 movies during our awake time.  All in all the flight really wasn't that bad.


FINALLY...Dubai!!!