On the first flight: Boy baby did great. Girl child was a handful. It was during her usual nap time but did she sleep? NOPE! She did have an impressive diaper issue and threw a few eye- and ear-catching tantrums. I totally contemplated abandoning her in the bathroom on the plane...
After the sweet relief of touchdown in Chicago, we had to change terminals. Here are some pics of our walk from one terminal to another. Don't judge the daytime pacifier use. Or go ahead and judge, I don't mind, I probably would. We never let her have one during the day, but desperate times call for desperate measures. So the walk started like this...
Then ended with this...if it weren't for the switch we would probably still be walking through that airport.
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Chicago to Portland was much more pleasant: Our first class seats were complete with all the perks, Stella slept from before we took off until just before landing (thank you benedryl) and Brennan did some sleeping, too. Here is proof of the sleeping:
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Portland to Alaska...well I was so delirious I have blocked much of it from my memory. Here is what I recall. After a long Portland layover we finally boarded and took off. This was at 10:30 pm west coast time so about 1:30 am in our bodies. Stella was wide awake and having some serious personality issues due to lack of sleep. Enter benedryl and it was smooth sailing from there. Mom-in-law had the baby the whole time. I was in and out of consciousness but didn't hear any screaming. I think it went as well as a red eye flight with two small children can go.
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So in summary: it was a LONG DAY. The end result was worth it, this is our new view:
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