Mission accomplished.

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We feel like we completed an Apollo space mission, where we rode (a manmade and extremely complex device) a vehicle an extremely long distance to bring back something much more precious that space rooks. Another analogy is that we made the home run and Rui is now in Sacramento.

The airplane ride turned out to be uneventful. We even got to taste a kids meal. It's hard to eat one meal on top of another. Rui enjoyed reading The Wall street journal and Discovery magazines and we were at poopcon 4 alert and we wanted to avoid a hazmat emergency landing due to many people being overcome by a mysterious poopy tear gas odor. Instead a senior citizen had a "P" problem and the stewardess really had their work cut out cleaning the mess from his car seat and the aisle leading to the bathroom toilet. It was not a pretty sight. It was really intense to see the workers walking quickly back and forth with white gloves on and lots of plastic bags and towels., etc. I thought they were going to use a fire extinguisher to deodorize the mess., If you didn't know better, it gave the appearance that they were doing surgury back there.

Rui was set to errupt and we were ready to respond fast. We had to do it before it errupted beyond the barriers of the bassenet. It's really difficult to change a poopy diaper in an airplane. Rui hardly cried (until the big one), and actually slept in the bassinet in front of us. When she did do the big one, it was a level 3 alert (meaning it filled the diaper and no more..... phew). But where could we change her? She was too big for the bathroom. When we brought our concerns to the staff they told us we could use the business class bathroom (big whoopee and 2-4 inches more). Wow we needed it. It turns out that Rui had really dirty feet and she left her marks on the wall. I had to stay afterwards to do the hazmat wipe down. That was our biggest hurdle and we did it with one breadth (maybe two.) The stewardess, afterwards, rushed to spray deorderizer and flower scents to make the bathroom more survivable for the next person.

She got an verbal award today. She is now the Poop queen, because she did 4 big ones in one day. yuck! Hmm, maybe she has traveler's diarrhea. Well we're back and exhausted. We hope to adjust to the time schedule in Calif. in the next few days. Chris has all ready awarded her the drama queen award. I know Father's day is coming soon. Maybe I'll get a set of those high tech headphones that filter out unwanted noises (likes screams, crying, whining, and yelling!). If they don't exist, someone should invent them..