So, Tanner is in Finland. Day one of his big adventure. It was not so easy. He left Chicago at 4:20 on time and I fully expected to hear from Tuuli when I woke up the next morning. It was all morning long that I kept checking my email to hear from her. Nothing.. When I spoke with Heather she told me that they had closed some airports down due to the ash. Georgeann an I began to get worried. We checked the flight status on line and the flight had indeed taken off on time from Chicago but was delayed landing in Amsterdam by nearly 5 hours. WHERE WAS THIS PLANE??? We called the airline and they were very non helpful. They thought the plane was in Paris and didn't know much more than that. To think ( and you know I am a thinker, I already told you that) I was panicked, well I was FREAKED!!!

Tuulie cleared things up. They indeed landed in Paris.. They were delayed nearly 3 hours. They were able to get Tanner in Paris and walk around.. ( I wondered if they put a beret on him???) and they arrived safely in Helsinki.. More updates to come.