Are you kidding me????

We got to the airport in Kiev and as our driver was helping us inside we mentioned to him that we had a 12 hour layover through the night in Paris. He made some comment about Mia needing a visa for there but then he said it probably was fine for that long and since it was a layover. So we boarded the plane to Paris and our stewardess was super friendly and in love with Mia so we decided to ask her about it. Well she thought we would be fine but another lady said we wouldn,t so when we landed the stewardess had one of the ground staff take us to see if she could help us. She took our passports and such to immigration and came back and said that we could NOT leave the airport! Apparently Kris and I don,t need a visa to enter France but because Mia is still a Ukraine citizen until we touch US soil, she needs a French visa in order to leave the airport. At this point I was ready to lose it! Fortunately we were able to cancel the hotel we had booked....which we literally can see from the airport...it is .Ike 2 minutes away!
So the lady helping us started to tell us that we were not even supposed to leave this little terminal area but she would see if she could get special clearance for us since there was NOTHING in this terminal....no food....nothing! So she gets us the clearance and we have to go back through security and now here we sit/sleep for the night! It is midnight here and our flight doesn,t leave until 11 in the morning.
Thankfully Mia was an angel on the first flight! She was literally the only child on the flight and I don,t think half the plan even knew she was there. The bad part was that she didn,t have a nap (probably the first day in her life that she hasn't,) and when we were about 30 minutes from landing here it was bedtime for her and she fell asleep and was ready to be out for the night so she was super confused and tired and now she is sleeping on the hard ground in the airport...poor thing!
Oh wait it gets better! Because the baggage claim is outside of customs area, we can,t go get our stroller....which for some reason when we checked it at the gate of the plane they sent it to baggage here. Technically one of us could go get it but not until tomorrow because you can,t check into your flight yet...seriously???? Luckily we found a "push chair" they had here for her.
Not sure how I am going to sleep worrying about if Mia will get up and wander off without us waking up. We made a barricade around her on the floor between the two chairs we are sleeping in so hopefully that works.
So we will now be welcomed home in a glorious, stinky, tired, unshowered manner!!! Nothing like making a memorable journey home!