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Posted by spacemom in : Dr. Jay, Travel, In A Family Way , trackback
- 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?
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Whoa!…
Ok, I’m laughing *with* you, not at you. Never at you. That is a big distinction. Those bullets, while horrific, were pretty funny the way you wrote them.
Just keep repeating “we’re here now, we’re here now”. Travel is not for the faint of heart! Hopefully things will pick up from there and you’ll have a great vacation without too much drama.
Well, after reading your blog today, I’m going home and going back to bed. I’m exhausted.
Try to have some fun and get some rest please!
exhausting…absolutely exhausting! We have yet to travel with both boys (other than car trips)….
are you on the San Juan Islands? I went to wedding there once, and was taken by the tranquility of the island.
Whew! This makes me tired! Of course, everything makes me tired. But I love your description of the trip!
Hope you were able to get some rest and have a great day today!
Good grief! I am totally wiped out just reading. I hope the trip is worth and the girls make wonderful memories!!
Ah, traveling with children - such joy!
Um, yeah. Ditto on the bathroom floor incident ‘cept mine was waving “hi” to those waiting in line from UNDER THE STALL! Nice. Have matching shoulder drool stains.
I agree with everyone else — I got tired just reading it all! I’m glad you at least made it safely, and I hope the trip home is much, much smoother.
My heart is massively pounding reading that. Oh yeah, I’m very familiar with the screw the 5 second rule in airplane bathrooms. It’s vilely disgusting in retrospect, but when you’re dealing with Damien-ettes, somethings gotta give. I hope you’re powering down by now!