Long LONG LONGGGGGG TRIP

Galena to Fairbanks to Seattle to LA to Miami to Atlanta to London to Lusaka.
34 Hours of Flight time
4 days of travel
7 plane changes
11 time zones crosses
2 hemispheres
5 states
3 countries
30,000 feet in Altitude change
 64 degrees change in Temperature

From the Arctic to the Tropics
All of this is just the ONE WAY from Galena to Lusaka. Thankfully we had a week to recover in Miami but it is still a long trip. On the way back to Alaska we did it all together. No wonder I was so jet-lagged and tired! Anyways, our trip home(Zambia) was long but I must say it was the best feeling when we landed in Lusaka and the stewardess said "Welcome to Lusaka"!! The kids traveled great! Thankfully a lot of our flights were overnight trips and so they slept. Just waking them up every 4 hours on the short flights was hard. But they really did great. Keith and I were so glad Mom and Dad were available to watch the kids when we arrived in Zambia because we were so tired! Oma even woke up with Kaden and played cards with him at 3 am the first night because he was wide awake. They played cards for a while and then he got tired again so Oma put him back in bed and he slept the rest of the night. Here are some pictures of our trip!

8 hour layover in London. Thankfully we got some of the comfy couches and the boys and I discovered the play area in the airport. We watched a lot of movies on our Ipods

 Big Planes

 The Airbus.... This is the Biggest passenger Plane I have ever seen. Double Decker. HUGE!!!

 He's just about had enough of traveling!

 Most comforting site to see at 6 am in the morning! The Lusaka airport!

 Finally off that thing!

 Greeting people that were at the airport! So good to see everyone!

 Lechwe Statues.... they have been there FOREVER!

 Our wheels for our duration in Zambia

Before & After

Have you ever taken a picture and then take the same picture every year or every 5 years. Well When we lived in Florida we did that. We took a picture in the same spot at Downtown Disney. The Picture spot is tuck in a corner near Winnie the Pooh's store and I think it is adorable! I mean who doesn't LOVE Tigger, Pooh and Piglet? If you don't, I don't know how we have been friends! I love them all. They all kind of remind me of me, Tigger is hyper and bouncy, Pooh loves Honey and Piglet is Pink. Anyways. This time we returned to Pooh's neck of the woods to get a picture and now I have one to compare it to. Here are the Before and After shots. I think they are so CUTE!! LOVE IT!

BEFORE

Kaden 1 year old

Kaden almost 2 years old

 

AFTER

~Kaden 4 years old, Isaiah 1 1/2

 BEFORE

~Kaden 1 year old

 ~Kaden 2

 AFTER

Kaden 4years old, Isaiah 1 1/2

 BEFORE~ I just can't get over How cute my boy is!!!!!!!

 AFTER~ He really has gotten TALL!!!

  And this picture I just threw in because Buzz is Kaden and Isaiah's Favorite!

Disney

We got to spend one day at Disney's Magic Kingdom while in Florida. It was so much fun and we enjoyed spending the day with Keith's parents. Kaden was super excited to go since when we told him we were going to be in Florida he kept telling me "Mommy, I really hope we can go to Disney" We didn't tell him we were going there until we were getting to the gate. With him being 4 and being bigger then the last time we went when he was 2 he enjoyed it a lot more. It was Great FUN!!!!!! 

 At the entrance

 Kaden and Abuela having a fun Horse ride

 One of our FAVORITE rides. We did it twice! Buzz Lightyear attacking Zerug

 Isaiah and I shooting the bad guys

 Abu & Abuela getting the bad guys

 Ramos Family 2012

Let's Build Something Together

One nice warm(hot) day in Florida, we met Mike and Suzanne Holst and their kids at LEGOland. I am not sure who had more fun the 3 Kids or the 2 BIG Boys that drove us there. It was a fun day at a cool park. Made my head spin with all the things made with LEGO's. EVERYTHING there was!...thus the name LEGOland. hehehe It was a lot of fun with ride for the kids and big kids and so many details tucked into all the nooks and crannies. Keith and Mike bought all the little figures that you can and traded them all over the park. Suzanne and I would just role our eyes and laugh because they said they were buying them for the kids.... Yeah we know how that goes! Thanks for a great day Holst Family!!

 At the entrance with this HUGE Dinosaur that squirted water at unsuspecting guest

 A REALLY BIG DUDE!!

 This Darth Vader was AWESOME!!!!

 Isaiah liked R2D2!

 Isaiah was not so sure about riding the Carousal.

 Put out those fires guys!

 Check out those Pirate ships! It is cool to see how big they are with Kaden standing beside it

 Amazing!

 What would LEGOland be without a mini-mini putt-putt?=)

 NASA

 This Space shuttle would count down and then smoke up the place it was really cool and really tall!

 What happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas!

 I have always wanted to visit New York!

 Washington DC

As Buddy the elf would say...... Francisco

 This zebra was cool

 Almost life size Giraffes, and did I mention all these things are built out of lego's? It took me 2 hours to build Kaden's star wars space ship I wonder how long it takes them to build these?!?

 King of the LEGO'S

 These elephants are awesome!

 Kaden having fun racing the little go-carts

 YES THIS CAR WAS ALLLLLLLL LEGO"S I was Amazed!! Even the tires!

 Ok, so I am not sure who this station was for because both Keith and Kaden built a car and then spent a long time racing them. Keith really wanted Kaden to have a chance to build a car....Yeah Keith that is totally why we went in this area! As I said the Big boys had a lot of fun too!

 Even Isaiah had a car to race

 Watch out the Octopus will get you!

 The Holst Family~love you guys!

 Deer

 Foxes

 Kaden wanted some Pizza=)

 It was a long day so Kaden and I decided to take a nap with this grampa. He snored REALLY loud!