Safely Home

We departed Indiana at 1:00 in the afternoon Decmber 13th. I took a few pictures of our last few minutes in Indiana.

We're on a two year mission to live in Europe and become a little European!

We checked 8 bags for the flight and had 8 carry on bags as well. One carried all our important papers such as passports, birth certificates, our marriage license, FBI background check paperwork, and other various items we need to check in at our local commune (kind of like a city). All the advise we received also stated that we should carry my jewelry, the Wii, and anything else expensive that we wanted to be extra careful with. So, the kids also had their backpacks loaded with entertainment for the long journey. K needed his work laptop and backpack as he would start working on Tuesday in Belgium. We had our hands full, and those bags were so heavy I thought my arms were going to come right out of the sockets. The kids were such troopers though, which has become a theme now for our family after a few excursions. J recently named us the "Trooper Family". I must be using that phrase way too much to describe the kids, but they really have been well behaved and in great spirits about any curveball thrown our way.