A day (or two) of flying

We are happy to say that we have made it to Seoul Korea and we have only one more plane ride to go.  We left Thursday morning at 6:45am and are now sitting in Korea and it is Friday 5pm.  Thankfully we were not on the plane for over 24 hours but it definitely felt like it!


Our trip began in Nashville where Cherry Blossom's grandpa dropped us off at the airport 4:45 am.  Molly Moo, our oldest Boston Terrier, also got to go along for the ride since she is staying with Grandma and Grandpa these next two weeks.  Our first "uh oh" happened while we were checking in.   I knew that one of our three suitcases that we were checking in was heavy, but I was hoping the fee would not be too bad.  Unfortnately for us, Korean Air's limit is 50 lbs and one of our suitcases was 57lbs.   Instead of the fee being prorated we found that the fee was $100 whether you are one pound over or 20 pounds over.   Of course I told "The Rock" that if that was the case I could have left all of the stuff that I took out yesterday to make it lighter :)   Thankfullly,  this was our only uh oh with our luggage.  We are knocking on wood that it will show up in Beijing!

We have gone through security three times now and we are sitting in our third airport.  Our 13 hour flight was definitely harder then we thought it would be.  Of course I thought that I was going to sleep most of it, but that didn't happen.  We were blessed that we had three seats to ourselves and did not have to sit right next to someone.  We each had our own TVs and we caught up on a lot of movies.  There just happened to be a lot of children on the plane and one little girl was not happy 80% of the flight.   Her poor mom,  all she did was cry and scream the whole time.  It was very hard to sleep through this and her mother just looked worn out.  We also had a little girl in front of us who kept saying Hi! to us and waving.  All I could think of was that in a couple of weeks that will be our Cherry Blossom on the plane with us.  I definitely hope we have the experience of the mom in front of us instead of the mom with the crying/screaming child :)


We hope to send out a short blog tonight when we get to Beijing just to let everyone know we made it.  Tomorrow is a day of rest to recover from our flight so we will stay around the hotel.  I'm anxious to get some sleep and unpack!