traveling with Everett

As I mentioned earlier, we had a great journey to Korea.  It may have been our smoothest adventure across the ocean to date!  Our travels started around 3am on Thursday morning.  I woke up, fed Everett, did some last minute packing, and then we headed for the Kansas City airport around 4am.  We were able to check our bags in quickly and then we said a lot of tearful "see you later's" to my parents.  

Our first flight was to Detroit.  We were able to bump up to first class, so Everett could ride in style for his first flight!  Everyone was super nice/helpful to us with Everett and the flight attendant gave him his first set of airplane wings (sorry Gramps, they're Delta not Southwest).  Everett flew with us as "infant in arms" so he didn't get his own seat on the first leg of the journey.  He was a champ though! 

We had a nice long layover in Detroit and we were excited when we found out that the plane wasn't full so they were going to give Everett his own seat, so we were able to strap in his car seat between us!  Looking back, I can't imagine us having to hold Everett in our laps for the entire 13+ hour journey in the plane.  

 Everett's cozy little set up.  Tom and I were jealous because he looked super comfortable on the flight.

 During the long flight over Everett had a record breaking HUGE poopy explosion (hence the new outfit in the next picture).   We quickly became accustomed to maneuvering the diaper changing station in the small airplane bathrooms.  Here's little man in his new outfit and his wings doing what he did most of the flight--sleep peacefully.

One of the biggest challenges was figuring out how to get all of our bags home from the airport.  We had SO much stuff (kind of an embarrassing amount).  We tried to comfort ourselves by reminding each other that we were moving an infant over to Korea and since we may not come home for Christmas we had to bring over about a year's worth of Everett clothing/needs.  

Tom, in his master packing/spacial reasoning skills, was able to figure out a way to get all of our stuff on the airport shuttle that would take us to Suwon, where we live.  The shuttle staff actually made us buy a third ticket because we had so many bags.  We were feeling pretty proud of ourselves and then we realized....we forgot a bag at the airport.  *Sigh*  We had one small 20 lbs bag that was "Everett's bag" and we completely forgot about it.  We'll have to teach Everett to collect all his belongings in the future.  This was his first flight so we cut him some slack.

Everett and Tom on the shuttle to Suwon.  Everett is saying hi to Korea!

 We arrived at our apartment around 6pm Friday night after about 24+ hours of travel.  Everett seems to be adjusting well to his new home!

PS--We got Everett's lost bag.  Tom had to drive to the airport to collect it.