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First, thanks for all the many well wishes.  And yes, it was a surprise to us too!

Long day of travel.  Left Marlow at 9 AM after 2 hours of cleaning and last minute prep.  The check-in process at Heathrow was beyond ridiculous.  Interrogations and line-ups and showing your passport at every corner.  Quite frustrating.  But Heathrow aiport is still quite nice, good baby changing rooms and tons of Duty Free shopping.

The flight to Philadelphia was on US Airways again.  We got a good deal on our TransAtlantic flights so we flew First Class again back.  It was a nice treat (although US Airways does nothing in regards to any bells and whistles).  Nice to recline my chair, have 2 nice meals and watch a movie (”Baby Mamma” - good mindless movie if you haven’t seen it and by my girl Tina Fey - “Go HOOS!”).

Stella only slept 1 hour for the entire 7 - 8 hour flight.  She was actually quite good considering.  We are in the lounge at Phili right now and she’s been wild.  Running around and sitting on people’s laps (our very social little girl).  It’s nearly midnight local time in England and she’s going strong.  We can only hope this means that she will sleep once we arrive in St. Louis.

Tomorrow it’s recuperating and our conference starts on Thursday and goes strong until Monday night.  It will definitely be an exhausting but productive next few days.

Granddad (Justin’s Dad) arrives tomorrow night to help us with Stella.

Quite lucky to have family again to help us out during these work events.