USA or bust!

February marked Luke's first trip to the US. He did remarkably well on the plane, much to the relief of mom, who traveled solo with Luke on the way there. Mom's only gripe was with the drunk man that sat across the aisle from us and kept shoving clips of "Futorama" on his PDA in Luke's face. Mom had to growl and show her teeth to make him stop. Here's a picture of us before boarding the plane. Notice Luke's special plane outfit (thanks Nonna!). By the way, that's not the plane that we took across the atlantic!



Our first stop was DC where we saw many of our closest friends and watched the patriots lose in the superbowl. We then drove to NY to visit grandad and An Ping. We walked around the big apple, where Alex and I stressed about the hordes of people, cacophonous sirens, and car&truck exhausts that were obviously aimed at upsetting Luke. But Luke was unphased by it all and slept like an angel most of the time. More important than seeing the big apple was seeing grandad and An Ping. Luke got along marvelously with them both, and hopes to see them soon again!