Expert traveler
Now that Graham has taken some six or seven round-trip flights and visited seven states in 18 months, he is naturally a pro traveler. Still, sometimes toddlerhood makes travel less-than-simple. So I felt super lucky when we scored an empty seat next to us on our flight back from Birmingham. Not only did he settle in well with is sippy cup, cheerios, and dragon (pacifier), he also took to our incredibly kind flight attendant. Said flight attendant made announcements on his little airplane phone with Graham in one arm, collected passengers' trash with Graham in the other arm, and took him on a walk up and down the aisle to "give mom a break." (See below.) What a guy!
After landing, I asked a sky cap to help me, Graham, our car seat, stroller, diaper bag, camera bag, and large suitcase to the taxi area (Jeff was out of town for work). Despite my protests, the friendly sky cap wouldn't even accept a tip because I was a mother "traveling alone." Too nice!
Meanwhile, Graham was happy to people watch, repeat "bye-bye" to people, and felt like a fun little travel buddy to have along. The second we got home, he went down effortlessly for a nap and slept for two hours. I call that an excellent travel day.
2 comments:
An amazing story made even more amazing if you know that little Graham hadn't had his usual 2-hour nap any of the five days he was in Birmingham!
Lucky kid to be such a traveler - up until this summer, Belén had left the state only once - to go to Fargo. And this summer wasn't much better. We drove to Nebraska. Bluck.
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