Airplane Adventure

Well, Day one of vacation has come and gone, and no guarantees that I will make another post all week, but we are at Mike and Vivi's and Hayley is asleep (yeah!) and Dave is in the shower. Greg is watching TV, Brit and the girls are sleeping, and Vivi is MIA. She disappeared around 7:30 this morning and we haven't seen or heard from her since! Hopefully she'll appear soon, but in the meantime...

Yesterday was Hayley's first plane ride. Sarah drove us to the airport, so kind. I sat in the way back between Michael and Matty's 2 car seats and prayed my carsickness didn't go past the stage of nausea for the hour and fifteen minute drive. When we got to the airport, we went to check and and we were both wearing long sleeves. It was roasting in the airport. I mean, unbelievably hot. Normally airports and airplanes are cold, but just our luck, not today. We got our boarding passes and weighed our luggage - each one weighing 49.5 pounds! Talk about cutting it so close. Thanks to Dave's thrifty-ness at home moving things and such to get it just right. We'll see what happens for the ride home! EEK! We bought this really nice car seat bag to protect it at gate check, and of course left it on the dining room table, so the nice Jet Blue lady gave us a big garbage bag to put it in. So nice!

Getting through security takes a completely new paragraph. We had so much stuff, liquids, etc...So we had to put it all through the scanner, then they had to swipe the liquids and baby food jars, (oh! - Vivi has just appeared!) with this strange pad thing and then put the pad through a machine and said, it's good, then off we went. It was actually hilarious - not to mention it was unbelievably HOT! I needed to warm up Hayley's bottle, and White Plains is a tiny airport with no restaurant, so I had to exit security to get hot water, then go back through with the hot water, after getting their approval and another liquid test to warm it up. Ugh! Then of course, the jammies I brought with us we the warmest ones we own, assuming it would be cool, so we ended up putting her in a onesie, the poor thing was so hot! We preboarded, which was nice, but then of course, it was roasting on the plane, and Hayley was so tired! But she wanted to look at everything and she is into this blood curdling squeal right now, so that was so fun! It took about a half hour to settle her, then she started nursing and finally fell asleep in my arms. We got very lucky and there was an empty aisle seat in front of us, so the guy who was sitting in our row got moved and we had the whole row - so nice. The trip was peaceful, though very hot, for the rest of the ride, and we arrived here around 10:00. Ahhh...Hayley had no desire to sleep, of course, so we stayed up and played for about an hour, and then all went to bed. She cried in the pack n play so therefore spent the night in bed with me. I managed to get about an hour I think. But once she was up for good around 6, Dave got up with her and let me sleep for an hour and a half. Yeah! I need a shower and a nap and I am raring to go. Marco here we come - plan to be there around 1ish, and to the beach!