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Traveling!

We are home from our cruise and we had a wonderful time!  I have SOOO much to catch up on, so I'm planning on posting a blog a day for a while.  We'll see if my motivation can hold up with this stupid daylight- savings-time-nonsense that is making me comatose by 7 pm...

Relaxing on a hammock in Haiti
Paisley was remarkably good.  The flights all went well again with the exception of one "incident".  It was our last flight coming home and we'd been traveling all day.  The plane was hot, Paisley was tired and I had to sit by a stranger in a very tiny seat meant for a dwarf.   The crisis began when we had delays due to the airline "overbooking" the flight.   How this is possible I still don't get.  But they kept asking for volunteers to take a later flight and we kept waiting to leave.  So, Paisley had a meltdown.

My worst nightmare.

Luckily, it only lasted about 2 minutes.   Sadly, it felt like 4 hours.  And I had her to sleep in no time, but let me tell you how many dirty glances I got in that time period.  Like I wanted her to scream.  I was trying to ruin everyone's flight...   But then she slept through the rest of the flight.  I was too afraid to move by this point and risk waking her up, so my legs were completely numb by the time we arrived home.

In her defense, she was an angel the rest of the trip.  She played quietly on the flights, entertained strangers on the cruise ship, napped wherever we were when sleepiness hit, and ate everything we offered.  She loved swimming in the ocean and playing in the sand.  She was perfect when we spent 8 hours wandering around in the hot sun.


Carrying around a rose that one of the workers on the cruise ship gave her.  We got her this dress in Jamaica and I think she's precious in it!

Ignore the fact that her daddy looks like he's passed out in the sand...

I'll post some pictures to recap a bit of our trip.  As a reminder mostly to myself, I'll be posting about "The Great Diaper Shortage of 2011", entertaining a child on a plane (by request), our cruise ports-of-call, and our drunken co-cruisers. 
Happy baby on the cruise!
Snuggling with mama!!!

Comments

  1. FaithNovember 8, 2011 at 10:11 PM

    Wow, I don't know how you do it! Neither of my kids would be able to tolerate that! It looks like you had SO much fun! And Paisley is SUCH a doll!! I'm so glad she was so good for you (and a tad jealous, lol!). I always want to snuggle like that (your last picture) but mine see our bed as a fun jungle gym. It never occurs to them to lay down and snuggle...so sad:(.

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  2. GingerNovember 8, 2011 at 11:50 PM

    awww love the last pic! and can't wait for the entertain a child on a plane tips - we're flying over thanksgiving.

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  3. SarahNovember 9, 2011 at 6:05 AM

    Glad you had a great time! I would have punched those passengers int he face for throwing dirty looks your way! Geez!! Paisley is out of contol cute in that Jamaica dress :)

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