Lord Levi's favorite Christmas gift

So I thought I wasn't going to be going home for Christmas, as well as everyone else in the family. I thought I would spend my Christmas here in the grey Glasgow city and get one day of snow. To my surprise, in late December my mother gifted me a letter and told me I should open it. Inside was a card saying that we would be going back to the US next Friday and that nobody knew. 

That's a pretty good Christmas gift if you ask me.

   

After the amazing news, I spent the rest of the week just going to school normally, waiting for Friday. Once the week was over we packed our stuff and we left at like 5 AM. Our first flight was to Dublin.  It was not a long one, and I just slept the whole way. Once we were there we had a layover of 2 hours and had to wait in the terminal, but thats no surprise to us. So we did and after the hours were over we got on our plane and settled in. This one was 8 hours to Chicago. 

On the plane, I watched Blade Runner 2049 two times and then went to sleep for the remaining hours. 

It's a nice view over Chicago, I didn't get any pictures so you'll just have to trust me on this one, I can't say as much for the city itself though...

After we got to Chicago, we didn't know if our bags went all the way through to Michigan or if we had to pick them up from baggage claim and then put them on to the next plane. So we went to the baggage claim area and waited for over an hour for our bags because what if they weren't all the way through and we just left our bags in Chicago?  There were other people in the same situation we talked to and after discussing for a while, we all just decided to go to our separate flights and go. So we did.

 

Luckily once we were home we got to the baggage claim and were relieved to see our bags spinning around on the conveyor belt. My mom was a little mad at the airliners for not being clearer on the bags. But in the end, it all worked out.

We left with all of our bags and stuff and got to the curb of the airport. My mom tried an Uber but nobody was nearby, so we just looked for a Taxi manually and found one guy who was very happy to take us. We got in and the man started chatting, he was super religious and was amazed at my name being very biblical. He was saying "Praise the Lord." and stuff, he was the nicest guy I've met in a long long time.

He eventually got us home and wished us a great time. We got our luggage all in the house and I just walked upstairs and said hi to Carly, she was a little confused so it was funny. After we met with Carly, Chelsie got home and we told Carly to call her name, so she came upstairs and we surprised her. After we met those 2 we lured Jackson and my  over by saying water pipes were leaking on the piano. So they came running and expected to see water everywhere but saw us instead. It was a great reunion. 

 

I spent the night at my father's house that night and it was a great time catching up with everyone. For the next couple of days, we would be just hanging out setting up Christmas decor and the huge tree in Mama's living room.

   

And then Christmas came, Oma, Papa, Jackson, Mama, and I all gathered in the living room at around 9. It was a nice and simple Christmas, everyone was opening their gifts and giving gifts. It was a great time, I gave my dad a mug and some oils, he gave me some nice headphones. Mama gave me the ability to come home, I got her a mug as well. (I'm not great at gifting so I just give everyone mugs I make for them. Easy.) 

We all had a great time on Christmas in general and I am very glad and thankful I got to visit home. I had a great time and we even managed to snag Jackson to come back over here! 

As the taxi driver would say; God bless

-Levi