Last week (which will from this point forward be referred to as the Week of Insanity), on Monday, Nathan and I packed up an insane amount of belongings (my fault, I’m a horrible over-packer) tossed the kids into the car, and headed to Atlanta. It was a pretty exciting event… we were about to introduce Austen and Addison to the joys of flight. When I thought about how often Nathan and I have flown over the past few years, I was kinda shocked that the kids had never flown. We love traveling, and we were really excited about finally having the opportunity to fly with our kids.
Needless to say, the kids were excited as well. I believe I answered Addy’s “How many days ’til we fly?” question about 8 times a day… for about 3 weeks :)
The car trip down was full of “Are we there yet?”s.
Austen was too busy reading (as always) to ask any questions at all :)
The walk from the parking lot to the airport was ridiculous. Austen said to me “If the parking lot is this big, I can’t imagine how big it must be on the inside.” Love the way his mind works…
After a ridiculously long process that involved waiting much too long in the scorching sun and scrambling to find a missing boarding pass, we finally made it through security (no pictures of that process after some crazy lady yelled at me for having a camera out… even though I wasn’t photographing with it!) and began waiting on the train. Austen and Addy seriously make me laugh… they were SO excited about the opportunity to ride a train. Austen said “Up until now I’ve only ridden in cars. Now I’m going to ride in a car and a train and a plane, all in one day!”
Nathan grabbed a ton of video on his iPhone… I’ll try to grab some of it and post it soon.
They thought the train’s abrupt stops and starts were hysterical. It became a game for them to see if they could stand up without holding on. Cute.
Family self portrait while waiting on our flight to board. I love my family. A lot.
Brianna was exhausted… she fell asleep in her stroller, and stayed asleep, even in the midst of all of the airport insanity.
Once we finally got on the plane and figured out our seats, it was fun to watch the kids as the responded to the situation around them. Austen had asked to sit with us, and Addy had asked to sit with her Grandma. Austen was constantly asking Nathan to explain what this noise meant, and what was going to happen next… while Addy just wanted to be able to turn on her iPod so she could watch a movie with Grandma :)
The actual take off was awesome. I have no images because some guy yelled at me for having an electronic device turned on (oops)… but Nathan has video. You can actually hear Addison going “Wheeeeeeeeeee!” in the background. I think she thought she was on a roller coaster :)
A few random pics of the group…
And quite possibly my favorite image from the flight… Dad wanted a picture of the whole group, so a flight attendant took my camera and attempted to capture us. I think the only thing that is in focus in this picture is the seat back in front of Jeremy… and something about that strikes me as completely hysterical. Yes, I realize that’s pretty silly, but nonetheless, this image makes me laugh.
So Jeremy tried to self-portrait us… but really it turned out to be mostly just a picture of him. This one also makes me laugh :)
We arrived in MN safely, with two well-traveled kids… It was a super fun flight :)
The story does not end here… even though the blog post does. Look forward to two (or three) more posts related to the Week of Insanity… soon!
love,
-amber
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