Safe in Amsterdam, departing soon for Venice!

We arrived here in Amsterdam about an hour ago.  Of note, we met a young man on his way back to Iraq to serve after a two week emergency leave.  His wife miscarried twins at 17 weeks.  If you would, please keep himand his wife in your prayers- both for comfort at this time of loss, and that their marriage would be protected during the difficulties that come for military familes with deployment.

A far more important issue appeared to be the SMELL.  We heard about it in detail for several hours from the couple behind us.  They finally decided it must be someone's feet (we left it up to them to decide what it was as we couldn't smell anything unusual...), and were beginning the process of determining the source through a process of elimination.  They asked the gentleman behind them to please put his shoes back on, informing him that if the smell didn't go away, they would inform him that he could take his shoes back off.  The flight attendant brought them air freshener, but they were unconvinced.  It was quite hilarious in a somewhat annoying way... :-)

We're boarding now for Venice...whoo-hoooo!

here we are in Seattle

We love you kiddos and are having a great time!