Abby's First Flight

Since we have found out we were moving to Australia I have been worrying about the plane ride with Abby. How is a 1 yr old who doesn't stop moving all day suppossed to handle a 22 hour flight? And, what about her ears? Are they going to bother her? Abby's first plane ride cannot be half way around the world!! With all of these questions in my mind I planned a trip to North Carolina to visit my Mom and Tony. We bought the GoGoBaby carseat attachment which basically turns the carseat into a stroller...so cool! (Yes, these are now the type of things that I find cool!) We checked a bag and of course had to listen to multiple people say, "you sure you don't want to check her?!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Come on people, get a sense of humor...way to obvious! Give me something original.

Anyway, the trip was great. Abby did good on the plane and her ears seemed to be fine. She of course planned her morning poop appropriately so that we had to change it on the plane, smelling the whole place up. Thanks Abs!

When we got off the plane in Philly there were about 5 or 6 guys in military uniform lacing up their boots presumably because they had to take them off coming through security. I'm not sure where they were headed but they all looked slightly depressed. Abby waved at one of the guys and he smiled and waved back. She proceeded to wave at each guy and wait until they waved back before moving on to the next one. They were all smiling when she was finished and the one guy said, "she just made my day!" :) Glad we could help out.

Visa Update: The visa has been lodged. I guess we got all the paperwork completed correctly and it should be issued in the next couple of weeks. After we have a visa number we will make flight arrangments. Till then, still waiting.