I didn’t think I’d be able to update today because we don’t have internet, but you can all thank ThomsonE850w9 for leaving his/her wifi unsecured.

Aside from almost missing the first flight and a yelling baby (unfortunately mine) and a bumpy landing on the second flight, it was a pretty good trip. Oh wait, now that I’m thinking about it, that second flight was pretty intolerable. This is the secret to how I stay so content — the moment the bad parts are over it’s like I completely forget they ever happened. Better living through senility.

So on the flight from Abu Dhabi to Cairo, I was sitting next to a very large man who was encroaching on what little space I had in my middle seat — made even smaller by the squirmy toddler on my lap. (To Josh’s credit, he did his fair share of baby holding throughout the trip.)

Thankfully very large man was also a very nice and understanding man when Camille, in the middle of a fit, dumped some water on him. Oops.

In her defense, she had been up since 3am and was tired of being cooped up in the seats.

This Egypt leg shouldn’t have been too big of a deal because everyone has their own screens to watch TV and movies. This professional TV watcher can easily burn 4 hours. Nope. My individual screen was dead. All around me people were watching Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory, but I was wrestling a crabby baby and trying to make myself as small as possible so I could avoid being elbowed by my seat mate as he ate his chicken and rice. Sob.

All these happy TV watchers — so not fair

Oh well, all’s well that ends. We are currently happily at home here in Maadi. We already stopped for for coffee at my favorite latte stop, just finished dinner with friends and all the kids are having a giant slumber party while I crash after being up for almost 24 hours.

Ah, our favorite coffee spot