September 16, 2010 – We arrive in Frankfurt

Today we arrived in Frankfurt after a long seven hour flight out of JFK.   Valentin and Alani were both able to get some much needed rest on the way, wish I could say the same.  I did get a couple hours but not the whole flight.  Harder to fly with a baby, I miss the good old days when I could knock myself out with some wine and NyQuil. 

The flight went great.  We had to check Schnuckel in as luggage so I was completely nervous the entire time for her.  She seems to have fared well though and was back to her normal curious friendly self as soon as we took her out of the crate at the airport.  As soon as we got in the van with all of our suitcases (8 + Schnuckel’s crate + the stroller) baby and doggy were both asleep for the entire ride to Valentin’s parents house.  We are now going to enjoy a few days here before we get everything loaded up in the rental van again and drive to Berlin.  Road trip German style!