Raising Our Chicks: April 2014

After the big anticlimactic surprise of telling the girls we were going on a family trip, I mean Lacy's reaction was priceless..."So, was that what the money was for?" because she saw Jason get out cash at the bank the previous weekend. We did get, "You're joking, right?" from Lily.

Packed up the girls backpacks, our 6 suitcases plus carryon luggage + a stroller which we ended up losing before we even got to the ship and we were off! For some reason, I was just excited about even going through the airport with them, seeing them on their first flight and just taking a break from our everyday. We quickly adopted a single file line strategy with Jason as the leader and I was the caboose. We must have said, "Single file line, keep walking, you have to keep walking, Mommy's the caboose, you have to keep walking" Escalators and moving sidewalks provided ample opportunity to say, "YOU HAVE TO KEEP WALKING" because they would stop and back up the whole line behind them.

The flight down was ROUGH, even for Jason who is our seasoned traveler. Everyone except Haley who was happy as a clam felt like we were going to be sick and Jason knew when Lacy didn't want to play minecraft her very favorite game on the Ipad, it was time to grab the barf bag. We then got ready with the other bags but didn't need them, we did grab them for rental car just in case.

Haley's favorite part of the day was the rental car because she got to be in a booster, not a big car seat. Biggest smile she had all day! All Lily could talk about was going to the beach. Lacy was super interested in the bird inside the airport while we waited for our rental car. Harper was probably loudly singing some song she made up.

After a very long travel day, we made it to our hotel which was the perfect 2 bedroom suite for our family. Ate a fancy dinner at Burger King and chilled until bedtime...another surprise awaited the girls in the morning!