The trip over

We started our journey by waking up at 5am Tuesday. The driver showed up with a small SUV that would not hold all of us and our luggage so he had to go back and get a large van with a trailer. We dropped the dogs off at the pet transport people and checked in to the airport. Ofcourse, Camille had a poopy diaper just as we were going through security. Stinky!! The first flight we took was to chicago and went well. Camille slept the way and Evelyn colored. Then we had a 5 hour layover in Chicago. Thank goodness for the playground at the Chicago Airport. The girls played for 1 1/2 hours, then we went to check in, ate supper and boarded our 14 hour flight on Etihad airlines to Abu Dhabi. The airplane was really really nice. We rode economy but it had all the comforts of buisness class on United, just not as much room. Evelyn, ofcourse, spoke with everyone along the way. Telling them were we were from etc. She befriended a gentlemen behind us on the flight, he was from Saudi Arabia. He was very nice and he even helped me carry Camille's car seat off the plane. Camille slept about 10-11 hours of the 14 hours on the plane ride. She did very well. Evelyn slept less, but watched movies the rest of the time. I could not have asked for a better transit experience.