why I hate to travel with Luci...
Step 1: 2 days of list making & packing & laundry; packing cups, forks, spoons, bibs, noise makers, monitors, blankets, books, baas, etc...
Step 2: 45 minutes to the Houston airport, with 1.5 hours to spare
Step 3: Clay drops Luci, me & giant luggage to be checked off at the terminal. He parks the car & carries the car seat & his luggage on the employee shuttle to terminal e (the only destination of the shuttle). He meets us in terminal b.
Step 4: Luci & I check luggage (harder than you'd think, pushing a stroller & dragging huge luggage and carrying two carry-ons)
Step 5: Luci & I make it through security with a stroller and two carry-ons
Step 6: 45 minutes of waiting including filling water bottles with water from a fountain (cuz as my husband says, "water is FREE") and a diaper change timed as close to boarding as possible
Step 7: pray that we get seats on the airplane, and that at least 2 of them are together (love going stand-by...although it does only cost $12.50 each way per person so I can't complain too much)
Step 8: Get settled on the airplane for 2 hours rotating activities (snacks, crayons, markers, coloring books, dvds, etc)
Step 9: Make it to 10,000 feet so you can turn on the DVD player
Step 10: Get off airplane & retrieve stroller & car seat from the jet bridge along with the 50 other people waiting to retrieve items
Step 11: change diaper
Step 12: Clay gets the rental car, I get giant luggage
Step 13: Get to car, install car seat...explain to the 2 year old why she has to sit still for another 3 hours
Step 14: Drive another 3 hours with stops for "eat time" and potty breaks for mama. Typically entails a series of DVD changes, Raffi, Choo Choo Soul and meltdowns in between...
Step 15: Arrive & attempt to get settled & have Luci get familiar with her bed so she'll actually sleep at "sleep time"
Step 16: Spend 3 lovely days with family
Step 17: Do steps 1-15 all over again in reverse
Whew!
We made it through another trip to Iowa! Seriously...the requirements of travel with a 2 year old are a bit ridiculous. We looked at each other yesterday as Luci melted on the airplane with 45 minutes left in the air and wondered out loud how in the world we are going to do this with two...
That being said we had a WONDERFUL trip...more to come on the next post...
1 comment:
I went on 13 flights with Bryan before Allie was born (in two years and most were by myself). I think Allie has been on a plane three times. It's just different once you have the second. You'll be fine though.
Sara
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