Flying on a Jet Plane...

Chloe took her first trip across the country this past week! We left this past Thursday to visit Mike, Beri, and Anna in Washington. It was great fun, I can't even begin to tell you! Anna was adopted from Vietnam at the same time as Chloe, so we all spent a lot of time together. I love that we are able to keep in touch and get the girls together, and visiting with Mike and Beri is awesome as well. And a HUGE thank you to Mike and Beri for letting us stay with you!

Chloe was very good on the airplane over, all things considered. There was two 2.5 hour flights each way. Chloe was a little fussy on the plane, but it was because she is now VERY mobile and wanted to move around. Unfortunately, the plane was packed both ways so we had no empty seats. Except on the leg from Denver back to Indianapolis. We had a whole row to ourselves, which was great for her.

First off, Washington is a very beautiful place...very different from the midwest.

Some highlights of our trip:


-Saturday we all went to Sea Side, Oregon. We traveled through the hills, saw where some mudslides occured, enjoyed the scenery. Chloe got to see the ocean for the first time. The weather was rainy and super windy. Chloe LOVED it, as you can see from the pictures!







We got some salt water taffy and candy covered pretzels, which were VERY yummy. We then ate at Doogers and had FRESH seafood. I'm jealous I don't have access to that here! Everything I had was so good. Chloe enjoyed her broccoli, green and red peppers, and carrots.









-Sunday night we went to zoolights at the Portland Zoo. It was fun, but again very rainy. There were a bunch of pretty lights and we really enjoyed the train ride through the zoo. We tried putting the girls in the double stroller, but Chloe hated it. Obviously stroller = restrained. Not for Chloe.









-Chloe showed everyone her sweet dance moves. And believe me, they were sweet. Ask Beri.


-We introduced Anna to Dora.


-Chloe got some awesome boots, you can see them in some of the pictures!



-Anna and Chloe were quite the pair in the car seats. Chloe screamed most of time we were in the car. Now we spent some pretty signficant time in the car seats, many times at least an hour each way. Many people might think that Chloe would eventually calm down. Not the case. She screamed the whole way a lot of the time. And when she wasn't, her and Anna were egging each other on. One would cry, so the other would start. Back and forth. It was so funny.



-It was awesome just seeing the girls together, visiting and seeing how far we've all come. We can't wait to do it again. I'm hoping that we might be able to do something sometime in the future that included all the little girls in our travel group...we'll see!!!

Not sure if you can tell in this picture, but Chloe had been hysterically crying. Why you may ask? Because Anna had been crying. That's it. Too funny.

Again, the trip was so great. It was so nice to be able to spend so much time with Chloe as well, without having to be at work.



Oh yeah, I lost my cell phone while we were there. My new cell phone. I'm still hoping that it might be found. But what do you do... (Of course this bit of news probably surprises very few of you.... )



I just thought this was a cute picture of how Chloe sleeps! :)