I’ve started a post about our vacation about 4 times now… and I just keep deleting it and starting over. The trip was too long to try to give you a play-by-play, and we took far too many pictures to be able to just pelt you with those. So, after much contemplation (and realizing that the longer I wait the further away it will be from when we actually went on vacation) I’ve decided to simply post pictures and captions. I have to limit myself to 3-5 images per day though… or I’ll get carried away.
I’ll just do one vacation day per post. That way you can experience our vacation, as we did, one day at a time.
(Besides, it makes coming up with topics for the next 10 days pretty easy. :))
Before I begin, we just want to shout a big “thanks” to Jared for caring for our house and our dog while we were away. Thanks Jared!
Day One (Wednesday, May 7th)
At the airport. I had a sinus headache and watery eyes. Ended up spending way too much for water and pills at the airport. Bridget got crackers.
The first flight. Took off at 8:53p.m. from SLC to Phoenix.
Layover in Phoenix. Bridget made friends with a random little girl. They shared toys. Our flight was delayed for an hour, so she had lots of time to play. The kid didn’t fall asleep until half-way through the second flight.
Our plane finally landed a little after midnight (California time), and we made it to our first hotel at 1:00a.m. We crashed.
I love the pictures! I’m looking forward to hearing all about your trip. 🙂
I marvel at how quickly Bridget makes friends with other kids.
Conversely, it is interesting how much we as adults avoid making friends with strangers.
I loved this vacation.
Oh good, I’m looking forward to more vacation posts!! It is amazing how easily kids can make friends 🙂 Was this Bridget’s first plane ride?
I too am amazed that kids make friends so easily. It was pretty cute to watch the two of them play. As for this being Bridget’s first flight, no, it wasn’t.
We flew to Phoenix to go to court in June of 2007 (another fun story, and potential future post), and Santa Barbara in August of that same year. And to Connecticut in June of 2007. Now San Diego. She’s a pro at flying – and she’s been great on every single plane ride.
This was the first plane ride where she got her own seat though. (Or rather, where we had to pay for her seat) – but we flew with Dave’s sister’s buddy passes, so the cost wasn’t too bad. Thanks Jenna! 🙂