We made it to Dallas

Eric was nice enough to take us to the airport at 4am.  We had a short flight to London then a 3 hour layover.  The nicest thing about the London airport is that it has a play area so the kids could run around for a couple hours.  When we went to find our seats on the airplane, we found that our tickets weren't just the normal economy, they were economy plus or something so seats had more space and a leg rest popped out.  We were the back row of it and I'm sure when we sat down with two little kids people around us were thinking they were going to be in for a long flight.

The kids did good, however they weren't as interested in the TV as we had anticipated.  We had pre-ordered a kids meal for each of them which ended up being awesome.  Not only did they get their food before everyone, but they ate almost all of it and took a good hour to do so.  Both of them took a decent sized nap (sadly, every time I tried to fall asleep they wanted something).  Kevin loved using the bathroom and went at  least 10 times and I'm not even exaggerating.  He did drink a lot and I'll take that over peed pants any day.

When we arrived in Dallas, we quickly found all our luggage and took the shuttle to pick-up the rental car.  We rented a full size car and it was packed to the brim with 10 pieces of luggage, 3 personal items, 2 car seats and a stroller.  This is where it started getting not so good.  I got my knee shut in the door when closing it which really hurt and left a good sized bruise, I forgot to pull out the GPS, we got lost finding our apartment an hour later after digging through the bags to find the GPS we found our temporary housing (a 2 bedroom apartment) and got everything unloaded.

We stopped at Chick-fil-a for dinner.  The kids loved the play area and their chicken nuggets.  We stopped at Walmart so our cupboards wouldn't be bare the next morning.

It was a long exhausting day, be we made it and Dallas welcomed us with 80 degree weather :).