36 hours, 3 countries, 1 barefooted sprint through the Paris airport (resulting in a missed flight, a VERY sweaty shirt and no shower for ohhh, what time is it?!) and 2 bags still chilling at the Minneapolis airport…we are home sweet home!

Ben’s first task on American soil was to seek out the closest Diet Mt Dew and take a big, cold swig (Europe’s Coke-land, don’t you know…)

Mine was to charge EVERYTHING WE OWN!! The fuse in our adapter broke two days ago and living without a laptop OR cell phone has been complete torture!

Sooo yeah. I’m going to go take a much needed shower, patiently wait for our bags to catch up with us (somehow they didn’t make the last flight out of Minneapolis) and try and get adjusted to good ol’ Iowa time.

‘til the am!