Anchorage to Cairo

Our first plane departed Anchorage at about 9:30 pm and arrived in Minneapolis at 5:45 am local time. Henry and Nathan were excited to finally be on our way to Egypt. Below is a picture of Henry and Joe getting ready for take off:

The boys did great, but it still seemed like a very long 5 hour layover in Minneapolis. Probably because we only got a few hours sleep. We had some adventures like getting stuck in the train that goes between terminals at the airport. We were only riding it for fun. Good thing we didn't have a tight connection. :)

Nathan and Henry rode on a motorcycle video game through Hong Kong:

Then we took a 2.5 hour flight to New York JFK airport. I must say that this airport sucks! It makes other airports seem like spa resorts. Within a couple hours of landing we got the darlings nestled down in beds of two chairs pushed together in the Delta lounge, and they slept for about 2 hours! When we got there the lounge was empty and gradually it began to fill up. We got lots of dirty looks from people about taking up so many chairs, but they obviously didn't know the rule: Never, never wake a sleeping overtired child. Here is Nathan getting some Z's:

And Henry:

The misery of the long day set in once our flight from JFK to Cairo was delayed. And when a flight is delayed for maintenance, that is not good. It ended up that our flight was almost 4 hours late, and we didn't leave New York until about 1:30 am. Here is Henry and Joe worn out at JFK:

Then our luck turned, and we all slept the entire 10.5 hour flight to Cairo! I only woke up to hear the pilot announcing our decent. (The secret pill Joe and I took is Lunesta.) We arrived at about 6 pm local time. All of our thousand bags, boxes and carseats made it, and we only had one box checked by Egyptian customs agents. Our box of junk was not of interest to them so we passed on through with the rest. Ha, ha! Suckers!