Michigan...here we come!

It is finally almost Christmas and that means we get to go back to Michigan for 2 1/2 weeks!  Tonight we packed since our plans with friends for dinner fell through.  They are Germans who work for MTU in Detroit.  They flew yesterday from Detroit here to visit family for the holidays and ended up spending a half day and overnight in the Paris airport...yuck!  They also don't have their luggage yet, so it was just going to be too much to go our for dinner with us.  There has been a lot of snowy weather across Europe the past few days that has delayed and canceled a lot of flights.  We're praying that everything gets cleared up for us before Wednesday morning!

Packing was quite interesting because we plan to take more back to Germany than we are taking to the States.  We have one suitcase packed and then put it inside another suitcase so that we have an extra for when we come back.  Brian has a very small carry-on that will probably go inside another one on the way back so that he can have a bigger carry-on. 

We each took our clothes out and put them on the bed so that we could figure out which suitcases we needed to take.  Here's the results:

Can you guess which side of the bed belongs to who?  :)

We are pretty much all packed now and ready to go.  Here's our itinerary:

1:30am Wed. (7:30pm Tues. MI) - drive from FN to Stuttgart and park our car to take a shuttle to the airport

6:30am Wed. (12:30am Wed. MI) - fly from Stuttgart to Amsterdam

8:10am Wed. (2:10am Wed. MI) - arrive in Amsterdam

2:20pm Wed. (8:20am Wed. MI) - fly from Amsterdam to Detroit

5:15pm Wed. - arrive in Detroit where my parents will pick us up to go out to dinner and then drive to Grand Rapids

We are definitely looking forward to being in the States and seeing our families again.  This is the longest that either of us has been away from them and it will be good to see them again (and see how big our nieces/nephews are and meet our new nephew-dog!).

Merry Christmas!