The forever ruining of my children. . . .They will never entertain coach again.

Our journey really began this past Monday.  

After the movers packed us, we closed up ‘shop’ and stayed with Madre for the 2 ½ days prior to leaving.  My mom asked my middle sister to come up and be here with her as I was leaving.  My sister is a teacher and she did not know if she was going to make it up – getting it approved.  We also gave her a hard time – although not intentional – our visas were received the last minute.  They were rejected once and we had to resubmit those darn things again.

Sister did make it up to see us off and she brought the twins with her, Madison and Marshall.  It was a good 2 ½ days of eating, playing cards, trivia pursuit and the girls brading hair.

We arrive at the airport late afternoon with our insane amount of luggage. . .here take a look. . .

After walking past the long line and being treated with 'status'(those who travel for a living and all my EY family understand this), we were checked in rather quickly.  We did have a minor mishap.  Hubby's luggage was entirely too heavy.  Nothing says world 'class' traveler when you have to unpack and repack luggage in front of about 50 people.   (HEY! You over there!  Stop looking at my underwear!)

I was too focussed to worry about being embarrassed.  Let's face it - few things embarras me.

It was after check in, where the forever ruining of my children happened and also, the forever ruining for their future spouses happened.  We were sent to the Business Lounge.  Take a look.  This was cra-cra and I loved it all at the same time.  Everything you saw: free!  Want liquor?  Free!  Want to load yourself on sweets and chocolates?  Free!  Why - lets throw in a buffet in the event you are hungry. . . .free!  Absolute craziness and awesomeness at the same time.  We purposefully put ourselves in a corner of this lounge since my kids were the only little people in there. Everyone was working or talking on their phones.  One man came to sit near us and he said he couldn't work with so much quietness. . .he needed some noise.  Ummm. . .cue my kids.

Don't mess with a girl and her food!

I could already tell that this trip was going to be a hard one to face. (smh)

We load the plane onto business class.  More craziness and awesomeness.  We each were assigned a 'cubbie' that could be made into a bed.  For my 5'3" height - I had no problem fully extending while I slept.  We each had our own TV.  Girls thought this was so awesome.  I would never tell them this. . . but is was GREAT!!!

My first leg of the trip I watched Wild with Reese Witherspoon.  Ahh. . .I've ruined myself too!

We arrived at Heathrow and had a 6 hour lay over.  Once again we head to the lounge.  I felt like a regular at this point.  Drinks, food, liquor, coffee. . .. showers.  WHAT?!?!?  SHOWERS?!?!?  Sign me up!  Yep, we all freshened up and were smelling pretty when we boarded for Bangalore.  The showers were individual little rooms.  They provided towels and all.  So very nice.

The sitting situation to Bangalore was the same - instead this time I slept more than watch tv.  

Now we are staying at the Mercure while we are waiting for housing.  As you can see, the girls are hating every minute of it. . .