Our trip to Norway begins

The trip that we had been planning FOR EVER was finally here. Our little family was headed to Norway for 3 1/2 weeks for my uncle Ole's wedding. We were so incredibly excited and a little nervous about how the flight over would go with a little guy. We woke up at 5:00AM on August 10th, finished our last minute packing, ate some scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast, and then headed to the airport. My sister Donna was so sweet to take us to the airport so early. Everything went smoothly and Porter did great on the 3 1/2 hour flight over from Salt Lake City to Chicago. Here is a picture of Porter and I in front of our plane. Once we were in Chicago, we had a 4 hour layover. Luckily, it went very fast and we just had fun walking around the airport and eating lunch. Here is Porter and Daddy relaxing at the airport. Porter also had fun playing with his new magna doodle in the airport while waiting for our next flight. The 8 1/2 hour flight from Chicago to Sweden was a different story. Poor little Porter was so incredibly over tired and could not get settled to sleep on the plane. He was awake THE ENTIRE time. There was a period where EVERYONE ELSE on the plane was sleeping and Porter was screaming bloody murder. I walked up and down and up and down the aisles of the plane with him for about 2 hours of the flight. The flight attendants gave us little stuffed animals for him to play with, but nothing would make him happy. Poor baby. Luckily we had a VERY patient guy from Sweden that sat next to us. The lady that sat on the other side of us kept telling me that she thought that my baby was pretty tired and needed to sleep..haha. I thought to myself 'Hello..if I could somehow get him to sleep, don't you think I would'? Oh well..what do you do. The kind of funny thing was, Porter ended up falling asleep on the plane right after we landed and hadn't got off the plane yet. :( So needless to say, we were extremely happy to finally be in Sweden. Here is Porter infront of our plane we took from Chicago to Sweden. And our little family waiting for our flight. Our last flight from Sweden to Norway was only 1 hour long and went very well..thank goodness. My Uncle Thor-Erik was so nice to pick us up from the airport and bring us to my Grandma Mish's house in Askim. We were so happy to see her again and it was so fun for her to meet little Porter. We were lucky that Porter slept right when we got there so we could have a nap ourselves. More posts about our wondeful Norway trip coming soon.