Amsterdam! Here we come!

Here is a short summary of Thursday!
Got up - we were able to sleep in a bit (like 4am - when O decided we should get up!) hung out- had yogurt and hot cereal. Enjoyed showers and watching news in English! For lunch we walked to the other McDonalds and stopped at the internet cafe to post the Wednesday news, and then headed back to the apartment to pack up to leave!
O was really tired all morning and just wanted to sleep. She looked sort of peaked. We got in the taxi around 2pm - enjoyed some Kyiv rush hour traffic and made it to the airport around 2:45pm. O slept the whole ride to the airport!
At the airport - you have to wait until atleast 2 hours before the flight to check in! So we had to stand around AFTER it took them 30 minutes to get us checked in - apparently A's passport had issues... ugh!
Got thru the customs and immigration and then just sat and waited until our flight was called.
O ran around a bit in the airport. We had tried really hard to get her to drink more water - as she had a fever and had hardly ate or drank anything all day... but she was not so interested in it!
Got on the flight - O promptly feel asleep on me. Our plane had some sort of navigational problem and they (KLM) had us pushed back from the gate onto some platform to wait for repairs... about an hour later we took off! O slept the whole time without a peep! She is quite the power thumb sucker - so her ears were fine for the flight!
We were so happy to get to Amsterdam! We spent the night in the airport at the transit hotel (Mercure) at $160 usd for 12 hours - you would expect something somewhat nice! HA! We had a room with no windows, 2 twin beds pushed together, a fold down bed for A and a small tv. Apparently the Chicago room was on the high end scale! hee hee! The really funny thing was that John was excited to watch some tv... for those of you who know A - he is addicted to tv - regardless what is on and will watch! John flipped thru the channels and ended on an "adult" channel! It was quite a shock for all of us! Funny - but a shock!
The night was pretty uneventful - O had a tough time - she was still running a fever and could not get too comfortable in bed with us and we could not sleep well either!
But- long story short - we made it! We will be taking off to Seattle tomorrow afternoon!
HOME - here we come!