In Vegas, the first thing you see at the airport after you get off the plane are slot machines... in Korea, this is the first thing you see off the plane...
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| Only in Korea... haha!! |
And as we make our way through another security check point and proceed toward our connecting flight, what do we find?....
Soon after we got to our gate to wait out the rest of our layover, this happened...
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| My sweet girl... |
Cookie looked like those many others you see snoozing on the lined up chairs at various gates... awww... poor girl was so tired... by this action alone, she should be admitted into the world traveler's club =P Speaking of which..... y'know, when I was just 6 years old, I was not as experienced as Sophia is today in terms of traveling--this gal has been to each side of the US (and Puerto Rico) and now she can check off international travel on her bucket list! Seriously!! How do I get this gig?? Haha!!
During our stay in Thailand, she was already thinking ahead and asked where we were going to travel for Spring and Summer break... WHA??? Cookie threw around a few suggestions--she mentioned PR to go horseback riding again (still gotta post that =/ ), New York to find Spiderman and to see the State of Liberty, or back to Thailand. Haha!! Got a natural born traveler on our hands! Is this like her talent/passion? Cause it can be expensive (yikes!!)! She better start looking for a job now, hahahaha!!
So, after another 6 hours, we were in THAILAND!!!!!!!!!!!
My first thought, "Thank freakin' GOODNESS!!!" I'm sure Sophia was as eager to get out of the plane as much as everybody else onboard, but it didn't help much when she was literally counting down the minutes till we landed--yes, there was a countdown clock provided on our in-flight entertainment screens... thank you, Korea Air, for providing that info... haha... it's funny now, but wasn't so much at that moment.
Our next goal was to get to through the immigration/customs line as quick as possible... I don't have a pic of it, but good luck to us cause the line was literally at least a mile long! On very little sleep and a young'n on our hands, this was going to be a struggle--so close but yet so far (this is where I cried on the inside, haha). But, FORTUNATELY, after waiting 20 min, we were able to bypass the rest of the line because an airport employee saw that we were with a young child and had us go to a different line... with ONLY 1 PERSON in front of us, YOO-HOO!!! YAY!!!!!! Was so relieved!!!! Thank you random airport employee randomly walking by!!!
And, here it is...
SOPHIA'S VERY FIRST STAMP IN HER PASSPORT!!!!
I'm so excited for her!!! (As though you couldn't tell.)
After that excitement (for me, haha), we jetted to the baggage claim... what a little trooper--if you look closely, you can totally make out the tired in her eyes and she still managed to give a bit of a smile for this shot.
That was just 1 piece of our belongings, 1 more and we'd be free to finally go meet up with my fam!!! SO CLOSE!!!!! ALMOST THERE!!! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!!! (Side note: I was surprised that we only needed 2 pieces of luggage... YAY us!!!)
Unfortunately, we didn't get a pic of the airport fam reunion; but no worries, I got plenty of pics throughout the trip... Asian style, haha!!
So, that's it for now... see you again in Part 3 =D
XXOO,
cookie & mama
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