We finally made it, and my little family is back together again after a very long 2 months! The last two weeks has been one of the hardest weeks being a mom for me. i came down with the horrible stomach bug that was going around for about 36 hours. i (sorry everytime i try to capitalize it goes to italics.) The last time i was that sick was when i was pregnant with stella 3 years ago the same week to be exact and ended up in the hospital since so newly pregnant. i was very close to going to the hospital, and thankfully my mother in law, Robin spent the night just incase stella came down with it and i had no energy at all. i fought through it, and what i thought was over turned into a horrible head cold/ double ear infection for both stella and i. i went to urgent care that monday, and on wednesday (5 days before we flew out) stella started having an awful wet cough and took her in...sure enough double ear infection, and a nasty cold. The panic was real. i immedietly got her perscription, and kept both of us quarantine for pretty much the rest of the time which stunk because my girlfriends were throwing me a going away party, but they all understood, and still got to see a few of them right before i left. i was told the last thing you want to do is fly with ear aches, and i knew with our flights and close to 18k we would have no choice but to fly! Luckily stella seemed okay. i started to have some ear pain half way through international flight, but went away with some meds.
The day of flying.. anyone who knows me knows i hate flying.. legit hate it. when we were in indy i rathered drive 17+ one way than to fly with stella.. Luckily, i felt the presence of God over me and had so many people praying for me my nerves were very calm and probably distracted by all the sickness. i asked Jake multiple times is he sure he really needs us? i like my bubble.. a lot.. i wish i didn't, but i do..haha don't get me wrong i knew this would be a once in a lifetime experience, but i figured Jake could just share with me ;) now that im here so glad i came! we left my house around 6:15 am.. our first flight was at 9 am. everything seemed fine until we just sat on the runway which turned into almost 2 hours!! We had contaiminated water, and that meants no toilets (eventually put bottle water in there to flush-gross) and something mechanical..great................ we only had a 90 minute layover, so the panic is starting to set in with both my mom and i.. we continued to pray and just hoped by a miracle we would make time in the air and they would hold our plane for us just a little bit since international and 3 passengers (eek) i cant tell you how bad that first flight was, and only 2 hours.. the looks of the people in first class was priceless even though stella was perfect, and just the entire situation of the airline was pretty bad..
we are both looking at clocks, the flight attendant came to me and said they are trying everything to make flight, but rebooked us just incase... i looked up our flight and couldn't believe the next flight.. we would arrive in houston at 12, then fly to washington dc sit for a few hours, then chicago for a few more hours and then start our 14 hour flight... i wanted to cry, but just kept praying we would make it. i saw they delayed our plane for 9 minutes for us. At 11:20 we land (flight is now at 12) my mom and i are so relieved...then quickly turned into panic when the pilot comes over speaker saying gate isn't ready. i still thought to myself ok 40 minutes its okay just relax.. At 11:45 we still haven't pulled up to gate.. my mom and i have 3 suitcases (carry one) two purses, stella and a stroller. i told my mom just run when we get off the plane to tell them we are hear and ill handle stella and the stroller. 11:55 we finally pull up , and my mom took off (which was supposed to be across the hall and it wasn't.) im anxiously waiting for my stroller, and tell them i am about to miss my international flight. seconds away from leaving it, and i couldn't bare the thought since it was my nice one, but knew better to leave that and buy a new one than to miss this flight and go through next one.. finally they bring it and i tell stella to run! she looked so cute running behind me and everyone was laughing. i see a japanese woman running toward me and im trying to wave to my mom to tell her we are here. the lady was so sweet and grabs my stroller, and one carry on as i pick up stella to run faster. WE MADE it!!!! Literally with minutes to spare, i was shaking so bad when we got to our seats, and of course stella pooped so not only are we late and made hundreds of people wait, but now i have to change her before take off lol.. typical.. The plane was soooo nice!!! The team flies us first class, so wow.. our seats turned into beds, we had all these movies on a huge screen to watch, games for stella, a 5 course meal.. it was amazing, and made the 14 hours not bad at all! stella slept the last leg of the trip, and was perfect! Not one issue, or tear from her praise the Lord. The last 3 hours i started to get ansy, and tried my best not to look at the time. We land, and stella immedielty shouts "i get to see my daddy now in japan!!" We got in our at 1:30 am. We all had so much energy and excited to see Jake. We then had to go through customs and that took forever. we finallly get to baggage claim and i thought jake would be there but not allowed to be back there so we had all our carry on on top of 9 suitcases (we travel really light...) to find someone who spoke english and to help us took a good 30 minutes.. our phones didn't work and no way to contact jake so just was hoping we could find each other once we got back through customs again. sure enough he was standing there and so excited to see us! we ended up shipping our bags because taking on the train would be nearly impossible. we traveled back to sendai with krisi (johnny gome wife) and that took about 5 hours from the time we got out of customs to sendai.. we had to get on two trains. we had two interpreters with us who everyone is so nice here! To say we were exhausted is an understatement! We made it back to our little home for 6 months, and i will do a part 2 soon!
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