On the way to Missouri...

This time we picked an evening flight from Copenhagen. My experience tell me that it is easier to fly in the afternoon or evening with small children. We flew cheap with Norweigan and got lucky so we had 6 seat for us 4, which meant that both girls could lay down and get a whole night of sleep! And both of them slept for most of the flight. We didnt have any delays or unexpected problems and landed 8.30 in Florida. I can say it is alot easier and more relaxing to travel two adults instead of alone with the girls!  It took a while at the airport to get the luggage and go through the passport control. I also had to see some more people from the homeland security to verify my visa, but that was pretty fast. We took a cab to Miami Beach, app. 40 min from the airport.  It was relatively expensive (70 USD), but it was late in the evening and we needed to go to bed as quick as possible since we knew the girls were going to wake up quick after bedtime.We picked a hotel one block above the beach (Catalina Hotel), but we didn't read the reviews so much and this hotel was obviously not a family friendly one... I guess it was a good location for partypeople..but not for us... It didn't matter so much because all we did was to sleep for a few hours and then left,  but I don't recommend this hotel for families.

Miami beach was nice, we had a half day at the beach and because Jamie woke up at 2 a.m. we started the day early.... The sun didnt rise until close to 7 so we had alot of hours to kill before daylight. Next to the hotel they had a really good breakfast restaurant, and we had a looong breakfast there while Jamie took her (normally lunch) nap. Before that we took a walk in the area in the middle of the night and looked for a coffeplace or something that served food... but everything except a grocery store was closed until 7 a.m... We could at least get something to snack on for the girls... Well, we walked along the beach until sunrise and actually played in the water for quite a while before breakfast. The beach was very nice and relatively shallow so the kids could play without too much worries. We were going to catch our fight  3 p.m in Miami so we had the whole morning to play at the beach. The hotel offered free shuttle service so we took that for the 30 min drive to the airport...saved some money and got Jamie the opportunity to fall asleep again before our flight.  We only had a short first flight to Atlanta so we didn't "need" her to sleep over that flight. Between our flights we had dinner (Really good homecocked Salmon by the foodcourt!) and let the girls run around as much as possible at the gate. We had 3.5 h to Tulsa so we knew Jamie would go to "nightsleep" during the flight. We were all still jetlagged and tired so the rest of us actually slept for a while as well. When we finally arrived in Tulsa it was 9.30 in the evening so Rhonda picked us up and I can say I fell asleep as soon as I got in the car and barely heard the extreme thunderstorm on the way to Rhonda's house in Stella,Missouri...