Thoughts I had while on the plane ride home...

Below are some thoughts I had on the plane ride home.

I wrote them in a memo on my phone.

They are random...

We ate chinese and mexican as our first meal back in the states.

Our hotel in Caracas had bunkbeds.

We got to the hotel at about 12 midnight and got a wake up call at 430 am.

We ate our last real arepa and cafe con leche before boarding in Caracas.

We got to the airport in po a bit after 7 and we left on our 8 flight at 10. Arriving in Caracas at 11 and getting settled into the hotel room around midnight

The good thing about the arrival time and wake time was that the kids slept well on both flights.

Katrina had a yogurt in Houston that she claimed "only had 1000 calories. I saw that on tv, mom."

The poor ticket guy at continental in Caracas was wondering where our visas were to enter the us in our US passports. He was in training.

We were able to be with Pancho's family for all of our birthdays in 2010. We were in Venezuela to celebrate Samuel's birthday, his parents were at our house for Katrina's birthday, Francys and Fanny and Vero were with us for Pancho's birthday and we were there to celebrate my birthday just 2 weeks ago.

Katrina was given a bikini by her cousin and she wore it from po to Caracas under her clothes and with some coercing she did not wear it to bed and then when I woke her up at 445 am I didn't put it on her and helped her get dressed only to have her notice it, obviously not hidden well enough in the suitcase, take off her clothes and put it on under them. She is not allowed to wear bikinis outside of the house at this point in her life and she knows that but she just loves even having it on under her clothes. What a kid!

The reason seeing Pancho's family as often as we have in one year is not good is because the goodbyes are excruciatingly painful.

The other reason is that now we estimate that we will not see them for quite some time.

While in Venezuela Samuel starting saying mas (more) a lot more. He said gracias on several occasions and bye bye too.

He also gave lots of kisses and high fives.

Katrina was an absolute doll and everyone just loved her. We were told she looks like me and Samuel looks like Pancho. Personally, I think they look a lot alike, at least like definite biological siblings.