The day after Lara's 1st Birthday, we set off for our long adventure to get to Brazil. This was our second time traveling to Brazil with Lara, but I knew it would be completely different traveling with a 1 year old compared to a 3 month old, and boy was it!!!
My parents and grandparents were still in town from Lara's birthday party, so dad took us to the airport so we wouldn't have to pay for parking while we were gone. We learned from our last trip that we would just pay a little extra to fly directly out of Huntsville rather than drive to Nashville. Two more hours added on to the trip was just too much!
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| Here's Lara waiting on our plane in Huntsville! |
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| Love it! Watching the people fueling the plane and putting the luggage on. She thought it was pretty cool! |
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| Making our airport juice.... We learned after this flight that you could actually take one cup of juice for a child... would have been nice to know, since the juice and water each cost about $4 each... they know they've got you don't they?! |
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| Playing with her band-aid box from Grammy on our way to Washington D.C. |
We left Huntsville about 11:00 AM and were en route to Washington Dulles Airport. Well, we arrived and the ground was COVERED in snow, and it was still snowing pretty well. We ended up having to wait about 45 minutes on the tarmac in front of our gate. Since we only had a 1.5 hour layover, we were a little concerned that we weren't going to make our connecting flight! Thankfully, the next flight left from the next gate over, so we made it just fine.
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| Snowing in Washington D.C.! Since we were planning to head to the beach right when we got to Brazil, we thought it was pretty cool that we were going from snow to the beach! Once we took off in Washington, we had to go get the plane de-iced, which of course took about an hour.... We were supposed to fly from Washington to Orlando (just a note: we will NEVER have this many flights with this short of layovers ever again! Ha!) We had about a two hour layover, so we thought we would be fine even with the 1 hour delay... well, once we got to Orlando, we had to go BACK THROUGH SECURITY! Seriously?! And it took forever, so as we are RUNNING through the airport, we are all getting a bit grumpy that we hadn't had a single second to relax and get some food. But, we made it in time and were ready to go on our long flight to Brazil! (and hoping that Lara was worn out enough to sleep through it all!) |
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| Watching cartoons on the flight to Brazil! So cute :-) The headphones only stayed on for about 5 minutes, but she enjoyed 101 Dalmations while it lasted :-) She did miraculously well, and slept the entire flight! Yay! |
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| Waking up in the morning... At least one of us got some sleep. They of course did not have a bed for her this time (even though we had called several times to request a bassinet... so she had to sleep on us for the whole flight...) We will definitely go back to flying Continental next time! But like the trooper she is, she was fabulous and slept pretty much from after dinner was served until we got to Sao Paulo! |
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| Ready to see all the family! Yay! |
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