Arrived safely

It could be its just Mathilde and I, but we experienced that there is something distinctly nerve-racking about putting our two children on a plane without us. We were very relieved when Mathilde's Dad called to tell us they had arrived safely and everything went fine. About an hour later Emily and Anna called, and they were babbling away with excitement about their adventure.

Sara D. sent us this picture the next day (and in her email, she even said our girls were "so polite and friendly" woohoo! the training paid off!) Thats Mathilde's Dad on the right, and then my Mom and the girls' cousin Madeleine. Everybody looks happy (but I guess we need to teach Anna that "show teeth" does not necessarily equal "smile").



We video chatted with the girls yesterday, and they were doing great. It was 9 am their time, and they had already pushed Grampy in the water and gone swimming themselves. My parents claimed they were about to eat breakfast, but as far I could tell the girls were just happily chowing down on the remnants of the goodie-bags Sara D. had given them for the ride from Newark to Caz. (My Mom will claim that's not true, but I have a screen shot of Anna pouring orange, cheddar cheese, fish crackers in her mouth like she's Homer Simpson)