Grandpa Rog.

Where to even start writing about all that has happened the last couple weeks!  It's been way too long since I wrote my last blog post.  this one is dedicated to my dad.  He is the most easy-going, best dad I could ever ask for.  He never complains and never has anything negative to say.  I was so glad to have him with us on the way out to Okinawa and for an entire week.  We are going to miss him so much!

Working backwards...

Today (actually just an hour ago) my dad left from Okinawa.  He was here for a week and we had such a nice time with him.  He had an abundance of fresh fish, he went on many, many walks (I calculated a total of 35-40 miles this week), played cards, drank wine, drank beer, a little shopping, and just simply enjoyed every minute of his company.  Our flight over to Okinawa was interesting.  Not sure what else to say about it.  What I do know is that I am very excited to not be doing that flight ever again.  Mom and Mary dropped us all off at the airport on Tuesday morning Aug 4 and that was the start of a loooooong 22 hours.  All the logistics went without a headache for the first time in awhile, but we were all very exhausted.  It was about 2am our body time when we got to Tokyo and we still had to grab our luggage, get through immigration, shuttle to the other terminal, and wait for our domestic flight on JetStar.  That all took about 5 hours... with no sleep.  Quinn was on her 78th wind at that point and acting crazy, but very happy. She crashed hard right before we left for Okinawa and was in and out of sleep for the 2.5 hour flight back.  It is so much worse coming to Okinawa than it is leaving.  There's something about getting off that long flight knowing you have 5 hour layover only to get on another flight - short or not - that stinks.  So my dad is heading home now - but I think he'll be just fine.  No kids to worry about, all the beer/wine he wants (Delta is awesome) and as many movies he wants to watch!  Lucky guy :)  Here are a few pictures of our 24 hour travel day and time in Okinawa.  We sure miss him already!!!!

Unfortunately, we were not able to get an extra seat for Quinn.  The next best thing was the aisle with more leg room so she was able to lay down and sleep and play with her toys.  She did pretty well with all of it.  For about 2 hours she kept wanting to get into the aisles, but I needed to get the blood flowing again anyway!

This was in the Tokyo airport waiting for our domestic flight to Okinawa.  At this point Quinn had slept 2 hours in about 20 hour span of time.  She was running all over the place!  Oh, if you look closely that's her with no pants on.  She had 4 messy diapers on the long flight and went through a pair of pjs - and spilt water all over her other pair.  Lesson learned - you can never bring enough pjs on a flight!

DADDY!!!!!! 

Of course we need to have a beer after no sleep and 24 hours of travel with a small 13 month old toddler.

First day back home.  Her jet lag (which means my jet lag, as well) took about 4-5 days.  I think we are snapped back into our routine now!!

First morning at home having breakfast with Grampy.

Now on to our fun time here in Okinawa!  I'll let the pictures tell the story about how much fun we had!!!

Sushi on the floor!

Great helper at the commissary :)

Hi Quinn!

Dad's tennis lesson :)  He has a new backhand!

Happy hour friends.  Missing in photo: Liza and Roger

Morning that Grandpa left.  He had 2 carry-ons and that's it!! 

WE LOVE YOU GRANDPA!!!!