TheFlightOver

The flight over was not bad at all, all of the children did great on the first flight to Amsterdam, movies, snacks and psp games kept all of us sane. I felt bad for the mother two rows in back of us who had two screaming children aboout 80% of the flight. The eyes rolls and sighs from other passengers were loud. I was just glad it wasmt for any of mine. The six hour layover was the WORST. We attempted to find the layback chairs that Grandma Dot told us about... of course they were all full. We passed a lot of people asleep on black cushioned benches, but it looked too much like a bus depot for me and I had my babies and my two Louie bags, there was no way that I was going to drift asleep for even a minute on the fake couches.. Off to the Yotel to pay for a rook for 5 hours of slumber... that was booked.. check back in a few hours, this is like at 6:30am, Inayah is begging for McDonalds,which is not going to happen. We walk back and take over a section of the McD's area, try to make everyone lay down, at least I did pack each a blanket for the plane ride, those came in very handy during the layover.. Rosa checks back at Yotel.. no rooms still. 7am, we are all a bit delirious, we move to the black bench section Idreis is layed out on the floor and has made a pallet for himself. I know the man to the left of us has to be pissed because he was sleeping hard before we arrived in his section. There has to be a room so I check back.. now why the lady told Rosa there was no room and I walk up and Clare is giving a room away?, You know I am about to snap, I think twice about it, because we need to sleep!! We get a room until 11am at the Yotel.. hmmm lets just say it was like a VIP cell block with a double bed, when we all got in and closed the door... we were like sardines. I attepmted to find a place for everyone, put the stroller in the shower, tried to shove Idreis into a liitle cubby space, and then started thinkng about fire codes as we were all blocked in by the push cart storing the carry ons. How would we all get out? I wondered. Hmmm.. I cant sleep in here, it's too tight. Ishmael and Ibrahim and Inara and me all leave the room and slowly trudge back to the benches, We luckly find two that have been pushed together to form a half decent twin bed, Ishmael crashes, I stay awake for a bit, now mind you, it is like 2am in the morning for all of us. I have my eyes half peeked watching Ibo, who decides he should have a second wind. He is hungry so we leave Ishmael asleep go and get him a slice of Sbarro's and a smoothie. His belly is full and he passes out using Ish as a pillow. I put one hand on the stroller (which Nari is sleep in) and the other hand on my purse (hidden under the blanket), close my eyes and airport sleep on the fake couches.
Next flight is a breeze, 2 hours, we all sleep.
Arrive safely to our destination and put half our bags in a taxi because we all couldnt fit in the van.