Happy Mummy on Holidays

So the adventure has begun!  We have been planning and saving for years to visit America and take the children to Disneyland and General Conference.  On the Wednesday 20th March 2013 we awoke early with eagerness and excitement to fly to Los Angeles.  Jim and Mary came over around 7am to bid us farewell.  Jim even took us out to the airport and we all fit into the Kia with all our luggage!  Jason is a professional at packing our cars! (He used the rhino rack to help but still an ace job).

As we were loading our luggage Daniel was determined to take his new 'Lightening McQueen'  rolling suit case on the plane with us as carry-on luggage which he easily could of we were just trying to limit things to carry, but convinced him to put it under the plane with all of ours.  As we were waiting to board much to our surprise Daniel picks out his 'Lightening' suitcase being driven out to the plane!!! It was a gorgeous moment. We all watched the journey of the bright red CARS suitcase off to America.  

Customs in Sydney took a lot longer than we thought and we nearly missed our LA flight.  I got a little jumpy but as usual Jason calmed us all. I didn't read the rules properly about carry on luggage and I tried to take more than 100ml of Solo over for Uncle Bob....unfortunately it got confiscated and we couldn't find any in the international airport.  I couldn't believe how huge the Duty Free was in Sydney and the fact that no one sold Solo but everything else.  I should have packed it in my suitcase...sorry Bob!

The actual flight went soooooo much better than I could have ever hoped for.  There were four movies on the plane and only one a little questionable for the children but the rest were great which helped the time pass by.  All our technical devices lasted the whole trip so the kids were entertained well!  Daniel had a little grizzle but for only around 5 minutes so that was totally fine and then he fell asleep.  Luckily for us we were also half an hour early! 

When we arrived in LA we couldn't believe it!!! We just flew for 12 and half hours and it was still Wednesday 20th March!  Beware America the Ellis's have just landed!