First Plane Ride

On Tuesday the girls experienced their first ever plane ride! To bad it was to Atlanta...
The flight left out of Richmond at 545am. The people at security were uber helpful. They allowed the entire days worth of bottle feeds for the girls through the check point they just used a little swab test kit to verify that it wasn't explosive... not if only they could check to see if I had eaten anything that would make the girls explosive!

The first flight was about an hour long. The flight crew was so accommodating for our little ones. They even were kind enough to help us pack and un-pack strollers while boarding and deboarding the plane. They were also very funny for 545am, something they have fine tuned over the many commuter flights I am sure.

The sceond flight from Atlanta to Phoenix wasn't as good as the first. The girls were fantastic, the plane on the other hand was not! After waiting in line for take-off for approx 20-30minutes we then had to taxi back to the gate to have a fule gauge fixed (annouced as a 5-10 minute fix). Well the "fix" wouldn't take so they had to manually add more fuel to insure that the exact level of fuel was correct... 30minutes later we started to push back to wait in line for take off again. During this time the 18 month old and 2 yr old in the rows in front of us provided many scenarios was what to-do and what NOT t0-do with your child on a flight. The 18 month old was laying down on the floor of the plane and playing/rolling around. In her romp she located the ice pack that kevin had used on his foot and took off with it, before you knew it the bag was being licked like a pop-sicle... YUCK!!! The 2 year old was much better behaved. She loved asking "what's that?" to Kevin, to which he would kindly reply "It's a baby" or "That's her sister".

Our girls did fabulously! There was no fussing of crying. The only hard part was for us because they are little radiators sitting in our laps making the delay out of Atlanta very warm. Their feeding schedule was a little out of whacj b/c we allowed them to sleep as much as possible rather than waking them to keep them on a schedule that would change when we landed b/c of the time zone change. Thank goodness for the sleep of infants!!