Joining in your trip report - looking forward to following your latest adventures. I have enjoyed reading your previous trip reports and watching your family grow and grow up.
Welcome! Always happy to see some familiar screen names!
Oh my - rough start but sounds like you had some good times in-between the bad. I laughed and could picture the pacifier flying all over the place on the plane! Then the impetigo scare - I could feel your pain! I'm glad it didn't end up being an issue. Did you kiss the ground when you landed in California?
I full on made out with the ground when we landed.
I had never been so happy to reach a destination as I was when we got there! Luckily, the worst flight was that first one. The rest of our travels went much much better.
It wouldn't be pre-trip for you without some major drama.
Ain't that the truth!!
I feel for you - I have been there on a flight with Hannah. We had to strip off all the seat covers. I had a change of clothes for her but none for me. Future trips I also made sure I had a change of clothes packed. We have also had to stop and clean up a hire car on the way back to the airport. The joys of parenthood.
I had thought to pack an extra shirt for me thinking something might happen with DD. Didn't expect that it would be something with DS and that DH would get some of the mess on himself too. Definitely next time will pack extra clothes for EVERYONE for the flight. And after that experience, we made him keep the air sick bag in his lap from takeoff until landing!
That is some drive! How many days did they do it over? At least they didn't have little people in the back.
I think they took like 2 weeks total. So they spent a week driving up and stopping places along the way (like in Las Vegas, etc), spent pretty much the same amount of time in Washington as we did, then spent a week driving home by a different route and stopping in different places. Just the two of them and their dog. Driving was nowhere within the realm of possibility for us!
Poor you! At least you knew straight away what it was this time. More joys of parenthood!
Yes! The only thing that saved the trip was knowing what it was right away and knowing what to do. The first time I had it months before the trip it took a few days before I decided to get it checked out and it was so miserable. This time knowing what it was I was able to contain it.
I've been there as well - MIL can go in the passenger's seat while you squeeze in the back between bulky child seats.
Yeah, not the best.
Aww..you look really comfortable in this role. You are obviously used to working with babies.
Thanks!
That does look fun. Peter would have been the same. Does Paxton do gymnastics or maybe he will take up Parkour?
Loving seeing your non-Disney activities. The Kangaroo park looked like a lot of fun - it was really good they were able to get up close to the animals. I love the boat that Paxton made -did he enjoy using the real tools?
He doesn't, but I may have to look into it! He certainly enjoyed it a lot!
He loves building stuff like that, so this was right up his alley!
I'm following along!
Whew, that flight sounds rough. I know what an adventure it is to have a toddler in a cast, so I was glad to see you still went on your trip. It can add some interesting challenges to your life...
Aside from the scratching fear, it sounds like it was a pretty nice visit to Seattle. At least there were several kid-friendly activities to keep the children entertained in between the family events. That's always a plus!
Yes, it definitely makes all things interesting, including travel! I'm glad it wasn't worse to where she was in a lot of pain and we would have had to postpone or cancel. She really handled it all well. And I remember seeing pics of Landon in his cast!
It was a nice way to start off a vacation with a little relaxation and time to get ourselves over the jet lag.
Welcome!!
I love your TR writing. I also appreciate your honesty. Things don't always go as planned that's for sure.
No, they certainly don't! Especially with 2 small kids!!
Wow, that flight sounds like my worst nightmare!
Interesting to see how laid-back the kangaroos are. We have a kangaroo exhibit right now at our zoo and I was surprised that they really don't have any barriers and the kangaroos just kind of lay around.
Ugh, we had an impetigo experience like 7 years ago (Dug's lip) on a WDW trip. Not fun - I'm glad it didn't spread for you! (it didn't for us, either)
Agility stuff brings back memories - back in Bailey's younger days, we did a bunch of agility classes (for fun) and she was really good at it!
Haha, sounds like DD feels the same way about ketchup that Izzy does about butter (she told me today that she planned to butter M&Ms, not to mention that she's invented her own language called "butter language" and plans to make Butterland when she's older
So, get ready for Ketchupland someday!)
Can't wait to hear about CA!
It was definitely MY worst nightmare, that's for sure. I think it would have been a lot better had the flight not been full and we would have been able to have DD in her car seat. Lesson learned. Though it doesn't really matter now since she will need a seat for all future flights.
It was really surprising to me as there aren't really any opportunities to interact with kangaroos anywhere near us at home. But so cool! They are beautiful animals.
I would never wish impetigo on my worst enemy!
lol Butter language! Kids come up with some crazy things!!
Wow! That sounds like a crazy start to a trip! Crossing my fingers that it got better!
Lots of hiccups along the way, but nothing as bad as a broken arm and the worst flight EVER, thankfully. lol
Joining in. Bless your heart that flight was rough! Glad you were able to get some quality time with your family. Can't wait to read about your Disneyland visit. We were there June 28 - July 3 for our first trip. We were incredibly lucky to stay at the Grand Californian and spend four days in the parks. The kids are already asking when we can go back!
Staying at the GC would be a dream come true!! How awesome for y'all! I'm with your kids, I keep asking DH when can we go back.
Oh no... cross country flights with kids are brutal. And an incident like that just makes it even worse.
I was not thrilled at all about the late night flight (obviously for good reason, considering our experience! lol) but it was literally the only option for a nonstop flight, and I thought that it would be better to get it all over with in one flight than spending an entire day traveling.
Hmm... drive a couple of days or get puked on in a plane... that's a tough call.
I can only imagine how many other things could have gone wrong on a drive that long.
Just look at it this way. At least that didn't happen when you were stepping over the one that wouldn't move.
Excellent point!!!
Just like our DD. Ketchup on everything.
I always ask her if she wants some food to go with her ketchup.
Last night I even had to put a dollop on her spaghetti!!
I'm finally caught up, just in time for me to leave for my trip and get all behind all over again! I'm so sorry you had such a rough start to your trip! Looks like you had a few bright lights in your Seattle visit though, which is great. Can't wait to hear all about your Disneyland trip!
A Disney trip is a great reason to get behind on trip reports!! Hope you have a great trip!
Seattle was great, even if it did come with some interesting challenges. Thanks for joining in!