Well, the flights to and from Austin were somewhat of a success. Although, Sam and I agreed that we would never do that again with an infant. We got lucky on a couple of flights and were able to take his carseat on to the plane with us. It didn't help all that much, except for when he took a nap. But those didn't last too long. He did really well at playing peek-a-boo with other passengers and the flight attendants. He was able to keep himself somewhat entertained, but we did have some meltdowns. Luckily, Logan is a daddy's boy and Sam was able to calm him down quite easily.
We did have some problems with the flights themselves though. When we arrived at Salt Lake from Seattle, we were told that we couldn't leave the plane because TSA had said that there was a security breech at SeaTac and we would have to be rescreened. Well, this was not good news since we had a connecting flight in a half hour. After waiting 15 minutes, we were able to get off the plane in the International Terminal where ALL the baggage was unloaded. We had to find our baggage and take it to be rescreened and hope that it would make it on to our next flight. We were certain that we were going to miss the connection and there were no other flights to Austin until the next day. We were at a loss. We ran as fast as we could to the other side of the airport and got to the gate, only to be told we were at the wrong one. We ran to the correct gate and were told that they were just about to leave. We were let in through the doors and told to go to door 20. WHAT??? Apparently our connecting flight was one of those planes were you board from the outside. Yes, a tiny jet. Fun Fun. As our luck would have it, door 20 was at the opposite end of where we were, so we started running again. We got to the door and it was closed and locked. We started yelling for help. We could see the pilot and he saw us. We were banging on the door to be let in as we saw the plane get ready for taxiing to the runway. Luckily, one of the workers outside saw us and opened the door, we again, ran up the ramp and onto the plane. Phew!! We finally made it and as soon as we were seated, the plane left the gate. Talk about being right on time!
The flight home was not as exciting. We did run into snow at SLC, but it wasn't too bad. We were delayed a bit and had to get the plane de-iced before we took off, but Logan seemed to enjoy watching things from the window. There were lots of "oohs", "ahhs", and "wows" from Logan.
My heart goes out to all of you moms and dads who have to fly with young children. Sam and I knew it would be rough, but we never realized just what it took. And we only have the one kid. Needless to say, we probably won't be doing this again, at least not until Logan is old enough to sit and watch a video for the flight. :)
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That did not sound like fun!
I remember the first time that I went on a flight with Austin. Our plane was delayed and it ws just me and him and he was screaming in the teminal. After abot 20 minutes of screaming he fianlly went to sleep. Them there was a huge diaper blow out right before we landed for our destination and I made the next flght late...but we got there. We might have been almost 2 hours late but we got there. Yeah that whoe running thing you had to do, there is no way that I would have survived that! We are glad that you were able to make the plane. Hey what are you guys doing for Christmas? We are going to be in Moses from the 17th to the 1st.
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