- Fail to fall asleep with feelings of impending doom. Find out Jay feels the same way
- Wake up at 4:00am, eat breakfast over sink with dining room table and couch at my back. The flooring guys are to arrive at 7am.
- Get the girls up and changed, Okay Luna got half changed…At least she got a fresh pull-up
- Car to arrive at 4:30 for a 6:05am flight.
- At 4:35, panic sets in
- at 4:40, hyperventilation starts, I start to move things to our car
- at 4:50am, cab arrives. I am in full adrenalin mode
- Get to airport at 5:15 (for a 6:05 flight!!!!)
- Takes over 10 minutes to check luggage. 1 guy working.
- Security line is long. Really really long. Panic really really sets in
- Our flight gets called to the front of the line…Whew…
- Jay and I get separated in security… We each have a girl.
- Soleil finds a dime on the floor in front of the security. Almost have a melt down over not taking the dime through the machine. Manage to deflect this by tossing it in with our shoes.
- Get dime back. Discover Murphy’s law of Airports is in force. The gate is the one PHYSICALLY furthest from security.
- Play " I can get to the gate first" Final boarding call as we hand our tickets over. No sign of Jay or Luna. SHIT
- Jay and Luna arrive at 5:55. Door shuts behind them WHEW.
- Decent flight, but Soleil wakes me the only time I fall asleep. Flight attendant in first class is taken in by Soleil and gives us fresh, hot biscuits.
- Arteries harden shortly after eating said biscuits.
- Get to Dallas/Fort Worth. Find food and play area.
- Get on next flight. Find a kind person is willing to switch an aisle for a middle so Jay can sit next to us. She must have kids. She knew who Nala and Simba were.
- Flight is okay
- Arrive in Seattle.
- Luna LOSES it and can’t decide which parent she wants for potty. (she wants Daddy in the girls bathroom)
- Carry her to potty while getting bit on the shoulder. Get her to go by reading Sleeping Beauty while she is being devil child on a bathroom floor. Can you say screw the 5 second rule? I knew you could!
- Amazed her bladder did not explode in a horrific urinary disaster after seeing how much she peed.
- Got back to Daddy. Got a smart cart for luggage
- Read The Little Mermaid and Sleeping Beauty to both girls.
- Daddy says we are ready and go to Hertz
- Jay gets car, I continue to read.
- Hertz tells us to get car in slot B34…Turns out it was B348. B*tch forgot to put the 8. Took us 15 minutes to find car
- Jay finds car just as the luggage all falls off the smart cart. I caught the camera bag just before it was to hit the ground.
- Get all of the luggage, car seats and kids in car
- Go to get the power cord for DVD player. Where’s the bag we packed it in?
- SHIT! Jay left it sitting NEXT TO THE BAGGAGE CAROUSEL!
- Jay returns 15 minutes later while I feed children Ritz crackers. They will be well preserved
- Ask directions to Bremmington Ferry, get stupid answer (follow the signs)
- Get caught in three different construction areas.
- Make it 30 minutes before Ferry is to leave. Soleil fell asleep.
- Jay goes to find food. Returns JUST as our line is entering the ferry.
- Calm ferry crossing
- Construction on the other side of the crossing
- Get told by SIL "I sent you directions"
- Check emails that are printed out. Shit, can’t find email with combination code.
- Stop at grocery store. Get food for the remainder of the week. Girls need bathroom.
- I find a drive through Starbucks (THEY HAVE DRIVE THROUGHS? WHO KNEW?)
- Get back in car. Continue on and realize we REALLY don’t have directions to BILs guest house.
- Try to call, no signal. Get signal, lose call
- Get on Island
- Get to the road that the key is on. Still can’t get combo or exact location of the key
- Fuck it, we go to the gate and sneak in behind someone
- Get to the house. Wireless is open access, get SIL on the phone
- After getting verbal "eye roll" we get instructions to get the key
- Get the key
- Come back, empty car
- Take girls to the beach
- Then back for ice cream
- Then stories
- And bed.
- And now we are cooking dinner
- Can I go back to sleep now?
August 13, In bullet form
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