We Made It!

Our travels were remarkably smooth, just very long. Elena did great. We arrived in Blacksburg around 10pm on Saturday and fell asleep exhausted. Today was spent seeing our rental and throwing money out of our wallets as fast as we can at mattress stores and Target. Have car, must fill with stuff; isn't that the American way? Gram arrives tomorrow. Our lists are long, but we have a map of the area now. Tonight we had burgers and fries for dinner and then walked around the Duck Pond of the Tech campus.

Here are a few photos from the journey - none of Blacksburg yet...but it's green, and beautiful, and there are mountains!

Leaving Utrecht - we were crammed into the taxi, elena was holding her backpack on her lap, as was I, the hanging bag was wedged between us, the stroller was on top of me, Jake had his bag at his feet. But we made it...7 checked bags and 5 carryons, plus jackets and zippy the wonder stroller.


And this wasn't even our checked luggage.


Eventually in Cincinatti (on our 5 hour layover) Elena crashed, fall asleep in the resturant booth at dinner.



Elena is doing great - she's been a real trooper, hasn't even melted down or had a tantrum really. A few things we like so far - everyone is just so friendly, people are really nice, always saying hi, etc. and there are giant glasses of water filled with ice FREE in resturants! And we found local dairy milk in the grocery store. But the mountians and topography are the best!