Four plus three from Poland

We made it home!! 

We had a fun overnight in London...Robyn shopped while I took the kids to a Christmas Fair in Hyde Park.  We enjoyed real hotdogs, hot chocolate, and cotton candy. We took the city double decker bus and toured some of London Yesterday morning, we took a quick trip downtown to see Big Ben, the London, Eye, Westminster Abby, and area before heading to the airport. 

We took the bus from the Leonard to Paddington Station and then the Heathrow Express train to the airport.  We almost missed the plane as we had a ticket agent that appeared to not really know what she was doing.  It took her 50 minutes to print our tickets.  After finally receiving the tickets, we spirited to security and then found out she had done something wrong.  We spirited back to another counter and had to have them fixed.  By the time, we got back to security, the guard said that if we had been ONE (1) minute later, he would not have been able to allow us to proceed on.  WOW!  So we then quickly made it through security where most of us had to get the full body pat down and then we were off to the races to catch our plane.  O.J. Simpson has nothing on Robyn when she is trying to catch a plane after being gone for a month.  That girl had some moves!!  I brought up the rear as I continued to count heads and push Sarah Jane.  We made it to the gate with no time to spare but we did make it on the plane....whew!! 

Loved the moment we first saw Canada and I was able to show Karolina and Sarah Jane "America!!"  They kept looking down and saying "America!!" over and over again.  So cool to experience that with them. 

Arrived about an hour later than planned but made it through Customs and then Immigration very easily.  They stamped the kids passports and then they were official U.S. citizens!!

We then picked up our 10 big suitcases of luggage and as we were leaving we were randomly picked to go through an Agriculture inspection.  Oh boy.  So we headed down to that room and unloaded all the bags for scanning and then packed them all back up.  We were met my Grannie, Grandmother, Poppy, and Edsel at the exit.  The new kids ran up to them and gave them big hugs.  Life is good.

(Big thanks to them all for bring us our vehicles.  Grandmother and Poppy even drove home so we could get some rest. Thank you!!)

Headed home in our two Expeditions.  Yes, it took both to haul all of our family plus bags back home.  Kids were super excited to tour their new home and kept running from room to room saying "WOW!!" Some sweet friends and family had decorated our home for Christmas and made everything so neat and clean (take a picture).  We finally settled in about 2:30 in the morning (or 9:30 am back in Poland).  So good to sleep in my own bed again...oh, how I missed you.