We Made It!!!

Hey guys, I just wanted to let everybody know that April, Emmet, Weston, and myself made it back here last night in one piece. Everything turned out awesome. Thank you guys so much for helping us out. We would have been in a huge hole without a ladder if we didn't have help from everyone in our family. Having an extra child "REALLY" does make things 10 times harder. Try going through "Miami Airport Security" with a stroller, a Wolverine 1 year-old, a newborn, and 3 backpacks full of baby stuff. It was a complete nightmare, and I almost gave myself a brain bleed when the security officer instructed me that I had to take my son's sweatshirt off and put it in the screening machine. I was grabbing everything with one arm, while I held Emmet and had to fold up the stroller with one arm and put it through the screener. I am sooooo glad that Grandpa Moberg flew with April to Miami to meet up with me. He was such a huge asset and help for us at the Miami airport. The beginning airline only would check the bags in to Miami, so we had to pick them up from baggage claims in Miami and get them checked in to Grand Cayman. There is absolutely NO WAY I could have had both kids, plus a stroller, plus a moving box full toys, plus a car seat, and plust 2 huge suitcases on my own, even with April helping, because she had to hold Weston. Especially since we had to walk all the way to the opposite end of the airport to check in. The flight was good from Miami to Grand Cayman, Emmet sat with me and loved staring outside the window. When we went through Immigration we had something awesome happen. The Immigration lady was really nice and was asking questions about how I liked Med School, etc. I told her that the only bad thing is that it cost us 1400CI ($1600US) to pay for the visa's for April and Emmet to stay here on the island with me. Her jaw about hit the floor and called her Supervisor to come over. They both couldn't believe that the dependent fees were that much, but luckily whenever I leave the country I always keep every important document with me. So I showed them the receipt. The immigration officer who was also really nice called the "Head Guy" that's in charge of Immigration Visa's "AT HOME" last night and asked him how much the fees are. He then told her that it only costs $200 per dependent, and to call him on Tuesday morning so that I can get a $1000 ($1200) refund!!! WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!! Looks like we get to swim with the dolphins, etc after all..... We also had another luggage problem. Somebody mistakenly took one of our bags. But the Customs official thought she knew who it was and called them up at the hotel, and sure enough that person did have our luggage. The airport wouldn't give him his bag until he paid for a taxi for us to get our bag, so last night they brought us our bag and apologized nearly a thousand times. Also.... it was so cute..... we walked into our condo, I let Emmet down on the floor and he started to laugh and sprinted from our door all the way to the living room sliding glass door, and immediately started to play with the huge stuffed basketballs that I bought for him. Then he started to play with his toys that play songs and started to do his right legged foot stomp to the music. It was awesome to see that he was happy to be here. Right now, I'm up writing this post, while April, Emmet, and Weston have been sleeping for the past 2 1/2 hours... so they are getting refueled from yesterday.

So everything turned out awesome with the help of all of our family, and we get $1000CI back. LOL.... that's 500 loafs of bread...or 400 gallons of milk....