I am writing this a few days later so let's see how much I can recall.
I always put the packing off to the last minute. I tried to be better about it but we had so much laundry to catch up on that it made it hard to do. We ended up forgetting some things too which is inevitable but what disappointed me was that they were Christmas gifts and the shell for my jacket. Doh. A friend of ours is sending them over to us so we should have them soon. Too bad it will be too late for Christmas but at least we will be here to see them open them.
Our schedule this day was pretty good. We wanted to leave the house around 3pm in order to get to the airport around 4:30pm. We had a 6:45pm flight time and we figured that would be plenty of time. We actually left the house around 2:45pm so we had enough time to pick up Davin at school and were on the freeway around 3:10pm or so. We needed to stop in Seattle at a golf course to pick up my dad who was going to take our car for us while we are gone. I am pretty sure we got to the airport around 4:30pm since there wasn't much traffic. We got to the ticket counter and were surprised that there wasn't a line so we walked right up. Of course, we learned a few minutes later that our flight was delayed by an hour! Oh well, we had a lesiurely dinner and we beat the crowds which came in right after us.
Even getting through security wasn't too bad either. Again there were barely any lines and the most time consuming activity was unloading all our belongings. We had a stroller, the baby car seat, two laptop computers, medicines, baby food, formula, and my wrist brace. Apparently, everything food related needed to be "swabbed" and also my wrist brace too. Ok, after a quick Google search I learned that they were checking for exposives. Whew. Glad we aren't explosive! Of course, we had to all take off our shoes, coats and whatever else was in our pockets. THEN, there was the fun joy of repacking all our stuff again but we made it and we had PLENTY of time still to enjoy some dinner.
We didn't have great dinner choices but we took what we could. Davin picked out a huge sandwich from Starbucks but didn't eat any of it. I think we gave him some snacks that we had packed for the plane. Fredrik had Wendy's and Linnea had some baby food. The hard part about eating was finding a place to sit down. The one table we did manage to score was covered in soda and we had to wait for someone to come and clean it. They didn't do a great job since all they had were paper towels so everything was still sticky. Good thing we had wipes!
After eating we managed to make our way to our gate and we realized there were some food options there too. We would have had less food types to choose from but at least there were plenty of tables. At the gate there were not a lot of spots open for 4 people. We ended up sitting one gate away but at least we only had to wait for about 30 minutes or so. There were a LOT of families on this flight so we had a long line when we actually got to board the plane. At least we got on the plane easily and there was lots of space for our stuff in the overhead bins. On to part 2!
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