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Well...it was definitely a trip to remember! Let me start off by saying that it was so great to see all of the family that we did when we were there...we didn't get to see everyone enough, but it was nice to see everyone in person and not through Skype! The Cleveland weather even cooperated while we were there and held off of on snowing too hard until the day that we left.
The trip was....interesting! I won't even begin to go into our trip there....it involved cancelled flights, an hour sitting on the runway, screaming babies and lost luggage. But once we landed we were happy! We had to stop at Babies R Us on the way to Nana Susan's house to stock up on everything that we had in our luggage for the girls. Once we got to Susan's it was relaxing and so nice to be there! Aunt Kylie, Uncle Matt and Grace and Greta came over and Grace and Greta played with their cousins and even fed them their dinner. They are amazing and I just wish they lived closer....they'll be the BEST babysitters ever one day!
The next day was really the beginning of the end. Another long story short...we ended up with 3 different visits to Urgent Care over the span of a couple of days (both girls have croup...I had a terrible sore throat). We are assuming we picked it up in the plane...traveling at the holidays is always crazy. Somehow Matt escaped all sickness...lucky guy! Poor Grace, Greta and Kylie came down with the stomach flu so we couldn't really spend time with them either! Aunt Liza and Uncle Mark were there though, and the whole DelTorto clan all came over Thursday night (our anniversary...my gift to Matt was that I lost my voice) and while it was so great to see everyone I just wish we'd all felt better! We joked that next year we'll all just Skype each other a Merry Christmas!
The girls were spoiled rotten and everyone loved seeing them. With both of them now sitting up on their own all of the time it makes my life so much easier and they seem to have more fun too! We thought that Riley was going to start crawling on our trip there...but she decided to wait until she felt better!
All in all, a memorable trip and one that we'll definitely remember for a long time! We hope everyone will come and visit us next time....traveling with babies is NOT that easy. How did my parents do it?!?! Matt and decided that the next time we fly with them will be when they can carry their own luggage. (I'm only sort of joking).
