He slept on the plane from 12:40 to 7:20. I watched A Man Called Ove and The Comedian and got a couple hours sleep. After he woke up he buckled himself at one point, went to the bathroom a couple times, ate a little of his breakfast (a summer squash pasta thing and a roll), and was happy as long as we were feeding him mints. As we went through immigration later he would say “I want to go mint shopping.”
We exited the plane with Meghan, and when I asked him what country we were in he first said “Philadelphia”. He then had to do a lot of waiting. And more waiting. At immigration we got in a line with only 10 people or so in it. And it didn’t move. And then there was a shift change. August spent much of his time hanging on the railing next to us. But that portion probably took 45 minutes to an hour. When we got to the counter things went quick. Then, in baggage claim we found our three bags quickly. But Meghan was missing a suitcase. So she went and stood in the lines at lost luggage and we waited and waited. I stayed with all our other bags and read some Game of Thrones while August and Carly went and sat on a bench. Meghan’s hunch had been correct: there was a bag that looked like hers and another guy had picked it up.
We got out and met Ada and the driver (forgot his name, but he was quite funny and liked August). As we were late, they didn’t have time to take us and come back for Heidi, who was arriving around 6:30. So they took us to the coffee shop (confusingly called Kakao, which in Korea is the big chat program/other tech things company) and we had some lattes and August had a pretzel. He was really interested in the orange juice machine but never insisted on getting any. We walked around once to fill up his water bottle, and I was holding him in my arms, on his back, and we made up a “Floaty Float” song after he spotted dozens of helium balloons littering the ceiling of the reception area of the airport.
It turned out that Heidi also was dealing with a lost luggage issue, so we waited and waited. We finally left the airport at 7:55. Drove first to north Tel Aviv and dropped off Meghan. August and Carly got out and walked around a little on the sidewalk. Then a little farther north to Ada’s place to pick up cash for us so we have something to start with. Then on to our place. He watched some Sarah and Duck and some Kipper to keep him awake, then occupied. He was getting rather impatient by the time we got to Even Yehuda, and had more mints and a Zone Perfect bar along the way.
We got to our house after 9:30. August went straight to the little teeter totter in the yard. He wanted me to get on but then realized I didn’t fit. The first house rule is now apparently “If it doesn’t fit you you can’t go on it.” The guy let us in and showed us around.
Wanted to find rockets; link to what Vivian said as we were in the car with Cherie
“I want to go dessert shopping when this is gone.”
Asleep 12:30