Silent Night

Or NOT QUITE!! Last night we headed to the airport to stand by for the 1250 AM flight to Atlanta. Apparently, so did everyone else. So, us (my family and my cousin Whitney) along with 30 of our closest traveling buddies spent the night in the SLC airport! The fun went something like this...

We all spread out all over the D concourse, so there weren't many people around us. And, since the kids were a little wound up, we decided to let them run wild.

We tried a few times to get them to relax and watch a movie, but it didn't seem to work. Finally, at 2 AM they turned down the lights. woohoo!! sleepy time! uh, NO!! I slept, but Walter kept watch while the kids wouldn't sleep. Then at 3 AM, rise and shine! The lights came on again. Finally, at about 4 AM, they went out again, for like 10 min! At that point the kids were locked in their carseats and watching a movie. Thankfully, in that 10 minutes my kids went to sleep. It was Walter's turn to sleep, so he held Grady while he slept, and I kept watch.

We were pretty sure there wouldn't be room for us on the 7:00 flight, so we didn't wake the children. Unfortunately, Winni had fallen asleep unbuckled and her head kept bobbing, so instead of buckling her in so she wouldn't fall out, we did what any responsible parent would do, we strapped her head in!



But, then the strap slowly made it around her neck, so we decided that wasn't such a good idea!

Luckily, by some miracle, we got on the 8:30 flight and were on our way. I had Winni and Trae and Walter had Grady. Grady slept the whole time, but Winni and Trae (who woke up at 7:30) didn't feel like sleeping on the plane. As soon as we landed, Trae fell asleep. We had to wake him up so he could run to catch our connecting flight. We got there just in time to get 4 seats, none of which were together! However, when you plop a carseat with a 2 or 3 year old between 2 complete strangers and then walk away those said "strangers" are more than willing to trade seats with you! In my case, both got up and found different seats after i put down Winni's car seat between them and collected Grady from the stranger in the seat in front of me! The joys of traveling with children. But, we made it, and so did our 9 check ins, including a car seat and a port-a-crib, and our 5 carry ons! whew!