But traveling with kids? A completely different story. And top it off with air travel with our longest leg being 8 hours and 40 minutes.
Let's back up a minute though.
Our flight out of Rochester was at 6:50AM. Not a terrible time at all.
I had each step planned out and an Uber already scheduled to pick us up from my mom's house at 5am Tuesday morning.
That meant we had to get to her house by 4:50 for my anxiety's sake. So we had to leave by 4am (it's only a 35 minute drive to my mom's but ya never know...)
All of that meant that I had to be up by at least 3:15am. Even though I don't consider myself a high maintenance person, I rarely leave my house without some sort of make up on.
I knew I'd need 30 minutes to get myself ready and wake up during the process. Take out the dogs. Do the things. We had the girls sleep on the couch so that their rooms/beds were left untouched for the house-sitter.
We got the truck packed and everyone out the door by 4:05AM.
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| On the way to mom's. We are all so excited. |
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| SO ready to go! |
Everything went as planned and we got to mom's right around 4:50. Jennifer was ready so we just had to wait for the Uber.
The Uber showed up a couple of minutes early which totally eased my nerves. I know it only takes 20 minutes to get to the airport from mom's house, but I'm just me and I get anxious.
We had a lovely Uber driver and before we knew it, we were at the doors to the airport and we headed in. I had checked all of us but Mila in, because of the way my mom booked the tickets, she ended up on her own confirmation number, but being a minor, needed to be with an adult at the counter to check in. I was fine with that, since we'd be checking a bag, so I needed to go to the counter anyway.
And guess what?
Our bag was overweight by 3lbs.
The agent was LOVELY and was like "oh you got it sir, just take out a pair of jeans."
LOL.
The look of sheer panic on Steve's face was priceless.
I knew they could do it, so I let them figure that out while I got printed boarding passes for us all.
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| Mila's suitcase's zipper broke and she almost lost it and broke down in tears, but dad to the rescue. He fixed it and on we went. |
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| Cannot contain their excitement |
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| Our layover in Chicago. Just enough time for a hotdog. |
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| They sat at the counter alone and they looked so cute. (Ava is behind the paper bag) |
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| Here we go! The long leg. |
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| They were seated behind me and Jennifer and Steve sat with them in the aisle. I had a random (nice) lady next to me in the aisle and I had the middle for the entire 8 hours and 40 minutes. |
Mila and Ava did SO WELL on the flights. I knew they'd have no issue on the flight to Chicago since it's so short and they were so excited. I bet that excitement would wear off by the time we boarded the next plane. Since they sat behind me, I couldn't do much to help. It was awkward to turn to talk to Steve because I was effectively talking directly into the ear of my seat neighbor. She was totally fine and nice and didn't seem to be bothered by anything. She stayed to herself. I tried not to be annoying with turning/chatting.
I could turn the other way and talk to Mila because I didn't care about talking directly into my sister's ear, lol.
The girls slept on and off and watched movies for the entirety of the flight and neither one needed to use the restroom the entire time. Like, what? I went twice.
They were super compliant, didn't really complain, ate what they could (I brought a lot of snacks and any fresh fruit we were given, were given to them). I'm super-duper proud of how these young ladies traveled.
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| We made it! |
I have to be completely honest here. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm not sure what terrible things were going to happen, but it just went smoothly. I'm not getting my hopes up though, I completely expect the way home to be a shit show because of how smoothly things went on the way here.
My mom was checking in right as we got to the hotel. I asked for an upgrade to see if they had anything available.
And wouldn't ya know it.
They did.
I upgraded up to a suite with partial ocean view.
Yes, please. And thankyouverymuch.
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| Home for the next 9 days |
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| Not too shabby (and not too pricey!) |
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| View from my spot on the bed. |
Omg you guys.
We've been awake and moving for like 18 straight hours.
We relaxed for a bit before going out to dinner. It's been a long ass day and we cannot wait until tomorrow!
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