Getting there...

There is so much to catch up on!  The girls turned 23 months over the weekend and Marc and I ran a half-marathon on Sunday.  We have been very busy so that is why the lack of blogging!
Here is the 1st part of our trip to England. Yes, just getting there was quite the adventure!  We took the Chunnel from Calais, France to Folkestone, England.  Your car goes on a train through a tunnel under the English Channel (hence, Chunnel)...pretty cool!

What turned out to be quite the adventure was the fact that about half-way there I realized I forgot our passports.  Uh oh...BIG mistake!  With open borders, we have gotten used to traveling in Europe and not needing them.  We totally forgot that the Chunnel would have some extra security...and did it ever!  We went ahead and continued on our trip thinking maybe we could use our Dutch ID cards.  Before boarding the Chunnel you have to clear both French & British check points.  Well, we had no problem leaving France but the border check for England was a TOTALLY different story.  After being detained for 2 1/2 hours at border patrol, we finally were escorted out of there and we came back home to the Netherlands to get our passports (3 hour drive).

Here are the kids on the way back home.  We decided instead of turning right around and heading back that night we would leave at 3 the next morning.

We put the kids to bed when we got home that night and here we are in the car the next morning  (with PJ's on) ready to FINALLY get onto the train!  Isaac was really excited! :)

There is the train on the right and we are loading on.

Here are Isaac and Ava on the FIRST train!  Yes, after the LONG trip we had just endured there was another hiccup in our travel plan...a broken down train!

We sat on this train for 2 hours and then they told us that we would would have to get off the train and take another one!  Did I mention this whole time we were trying to meet up with friends in England and they were waiting on us!?

Here we our getting on the new train!

Isaac playing with his trains on the train.  He was SO excited to be on the train that it was very cute.
Well, we did FINALLY get there!! Cornwall, England coming next...