Herd of Turtles Adventures

I woke the kids at 5:00 am this morning by playing “America” by Neil Diamond. It felt appropriate. We have all had it stuck in our heads the rest of the day. It took a surprisingly long time to get our bags checked for the flight and we had to hustle to the gate to be put on a bus and taken to the plane. It was the largest plane we have been on so far. The kids and I were in the 4 seats in the middle of the plane and Ammon was across the aisle.  The 6 hour flight went well though and we landed safely in Boston. As we were going through customs the lady asked us if we had anything to declare. Azure said, “Yes, I am hungry.” That got a chuckle out of the very serious gal checking our passports. It was pretty funny. Then as we were riding the escalator to baggage claim there was a large American flag hanging over the escalators. Azure said the Pledge of Allegiance. I think she may be happy to be home. Today is a strange day because we are losing hours the longer we go. We left Ma...

Cormac says that I always threaten with, “That’s going on the blog.” Which is true. When the kids are being obnoxious during pictures I will tell them I’m putting it on the blog.  Today we should have been in Boston, but due to Flight Fiasco 2024 TM we ended up on Madeira. Prior to this week we had never heard of Madeira. The other consequence of the aforementioned Fiasco TM was that we had a 6:00 am flight which meant we needed to get up at 3:00 am to make the flight in time. For the past 2 months Ammon and I frequently go to bed around 2:30 am. Trying to get myself to sleep early proved to be impossible. Especially when I felt a fair bit of worry about sleeping in and missing the flight. I ended up pulling an all-nighter, but we definitely did not miss our flight.  The kids popped out of bed pretty easily all things considered. We got packed up quickly and headed down our 5 flights of stairs trying very hard to be quiet. Our Uber was already waiting for us. The flight was ...