Christopher's First Plane Ride

Christopher was able to go on his first plane ride this week. We found out that Andy's mom was sick in the hospital, and after three days she wasn't much better and they didn't know what was wrong with her. We decided to travel up and see her - and we flew since we knew we'd be driving up for Christmas the following week. (She's better now...still not sure what was wrong.) We decided at 2:30pm on Wednesday that we would leave ASAP. Within 15 min we were packed, had bought plane tickets, and called Rachel's mom to give us a ride to the airport. Talk about a whirlwind few minutes!!!!!

Here is Christopher's plane ride story:

After we arrived at the airport and checked in, we said goodbye to Mama/Nana and headed through security. Christopher was quite distraught, and kept reaching for Nana to give her another hug. As we walked away, he kept crying "My Nana. My Nana." It was pretty cute. Even though we had a tight connection, we arrive in Fort Wayne without incident with all our luggage. Yeah!

"Look, Mommy. What is that big truck doing? And look at the airplane!" (Looking out the window in the Johnson City airport as we waited for our plane that was delayed for 45 minutes.)






















One of Christopher's favorite things to do: ride escalators. In the mall, and now here in the airport, he just walks off one, turns, and gets on the other...over and over and over and over and over and...you get the point.

Supper on the airplane. We had just enough time to grab a bite to eat in the Detroit airport. Christopher enjoyed his french fries...his first and only for awhile!

Time to get off the airplane.

We went to the hospital and visited Gramma for awhile. Then Andy took Christopher to Grandpa's house to sleep, while Rachel spent the night with Mom in the hospital. She got out the next day, and we moved over to Mom's house for a couple nights to help out around the house and take care of Mom, who was still a little dizzy and weak. The last night before we flew, we slept at Dad's house so he could drive us to the airport.

Christopher and Auntie Meg playing with turtle magnets on Grandpa's fridge.

Sunday morning, we woke up to this.

It had snowed about 5 inches over night, and only two flights had left the airport before ours that was schedule to leave around noon. All the others, including the one to Cincinnati (where we were headed for a connecting flight to TN) had been canceled. We went to the airport anyway, and fortunately were able to make it home. Dad drove like James Bond to get us there - even up the wrong ramp to get on the highway because the one we needed was blocked by cars stuck in the snow. Thanks, Dad.

Christopher, trying to figure out what all that white stuff is and what they're spraying all over the airplanes ( they were deicing them).

Ah, fun. Except they decided the walkway wasn't safe, so we had to walk outside to all our planes....COLD!

We were back in TN for 4 days, before we turned around and headed back to IN by car for Christmas. It's been a crazy couple weeks, but we're having fun. More on Christmas later

Merry Christmas!