Yes, you read right - 8 flights to visit 6 countries, in 4 long short weeks with our almost 4 year old twins and we survived! It all started innocently enough - my husband's cousin is currently teaching in Zurich, Switzerland for two years, we had some frequent flier miles and thus we decided to take a European vacation. We are a strange close-knit family and frequently travel with our mothers (and therefore mother-in-laws) and so we booked our tickets. I have family in Scotland and we decided to hop on over to the island to visit them as well.
We were due to leave on Tuesday October 6th, and the Saturday beforehand my mother-in-law was over at our house. I was talking with my next door neighbor when I heard my husband yell my name in a voice that I have never heard before. I ran back to our garage to find my mother-in-law on the ground. "I'm fine, I'm fine" she kept insisting, until she tried to stand. My husband and I looked at her knee cap, and we could tell it was split in half. Hubby and mom went off to the hospital and she had surgery the following day. Strike two!
Both moms insisted that we still go on vacation, but we were doubtful. Who would take care of the moms, and was some higher power trying to give us a not-so-subtle message? Plus, now we would be half a world away from our two very best babysitters!!
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