Soo, the day has come and we have to leave for our flight at 5am. I told Will to wake me at 4am so I could have some coffee and time to get organized before we head out. He came in and woke me at 3:45 (i was sleeping in the room with the girls b/c this apt had 2 bdrms and biggest bed was full size). I told him to come back at 4am and he said nah wake up so we can have some time to chill and enjoy the quiet together before the day of travel ahead. Besides this is about the only time we can be sure no one is going to be awake bothering us…WRONG! This is who wandered into the livingroom at 4am on her own, and this is what she looks like at 4am. PS( the dress below used to be pink. I dyed an entire load of laundry blue with a cheap new shirt I bought – woops). Sophie said it is important to like different things so she likes her dress blue now and i should like my new blue shorts.

I then went off to wake and dress Sabs about 5 minutes before our car came. Of course this is one of maybe 5 nights the entire trip that she is sleeping like a rock in the morning. I was expecting total beast mode but surprisingly she smiled and said “SHOE” to let me know to put her shoes on b/c she is ready. Here they are at the airport in Rome around 6:30am.

First flight 2 1/2 hours to Madrid! Will and Sophie slept the entire time. Sabs slept 1/2 the time. I was wide awake :).

We had an hour layover in Madrid before catching next flight to CR. We had to hustle through the airport and ride a train to get to next terminal. We made it just as they were boarding with enough time to pee and hop on during last call. This is how we lug Sophie around the airport when in a rush. It’s fun, it’s efficient and we made our flight.

On to our 11 hour journey back to CR. Will slept for a majority of the flight and I would have woken him if the girls weren’t being so incredibly perfect. He didnt sleep at all the night before because he had to finish some work and with the time difference between California and Italy, sleep just didn’t happen. I watched two movies. Yes, that is more movies than i have watched all year (aside from a kid movie). The girls were so perfect that the people behind and across from us both kept commenting. I am so proud of them. Sabs was entertaining the people behind us with smiles and grabbing their faces. Sophie was watching movies and playing with Sabs. It was a crazy long flight and I am glad it is over. I think they both slept for a total of two hours.

Will catching flies.

We are all super happy to be back in CR. We landed at around 3pm, settled into our favorite hotel (who had chocolates and a note waiting for us on the bed) and all fell asleep at 6:30pm. The girls woke up at 1am and ate some leftover dinner that Will ordered while everyone was sleeping. They went back to bed for a few hours after that and at 7am we were all downstairs enjoying our first Tico meal at the hotel. They devoured full plates of rice and beans, fresh pineapple, bananas, and oooh it was all so good. Personally all our meals in CR have beat Italy so far. All breakfast I found myself saying OMG this is so good, ugh best pineapple ever, ooh these bananas, etc. Crazy to think we just arrived back from Italy. Food really does taste better here. Must be the sunshine :).