Monday, July 19, 2010

We made it!


Whew! What a day! We left our house at 8:30 this morning to catch an 11:00 flight out of Sac Intl. Jacob was really excited while we waited for the parking lot bus. We could see airplanes taking off right over us! We got through check-in and security with no problems. At our gate we watched the plane come in and the pilot started waving to Jacob through the window. He waved back and was super excited. As we were boarding the plane, the pilot said to Jacob, "were you the little guy I was waving too?" Jacob said yes and then the pilot asked him if he wanted to sit in the cockpit! Jacob thought that was pretty cool. Then it was on to Denver and then to Minneapolis. Jacob did good, just a little restless at times.

We picked up our rental car and headed down to Rochester (about an hour and a half). We drove through St. Paul and over the Mississippi River! The trek down Hwy 52 was very green, tons of corn fields, tons of Dairy Queens and not much else!
Our hotel is working out great. We have a 1 bedroom suite with a full kitchen (with granite counter tops and hard wood floors even!), 2 flat screen tv's and HD! Nicer than our house! We hit up the local Applebee's and Super Walmart for some groceries and now Jacob is finally in bed. We're 2 hours ahead here, so even though it's midnight, it's really is 10:00 to us. Jacob has an EEG scheduled tomorrow and they want him to come in sleep deprived, which means stay up late and get up early. We'll see about the get up early part! :o) The EEG is a monitor of Jacob's brain waves by using electrodes stuck to his head. He has had this done before. It is not painful to him, just a bit annoying. It should take an hour or two.

Well, that's it for now. I'll update tomorrow after the EEG. Nighty-night!