Leaving on a Jet Plane

We did it! We successfully made our first airplane trip with Eli. It was a lot of work, but not as stressful as I thought it would be. We left early Thursday morning for Denver. Eli was asleep for about the first 20 minutes of the flight, and then awake the rest of the flight. But he was content, and played. He shouted a lot, but it was happy shouting. The flight attendants loved him - which was a big positive.

Here's a picture of Eli on the plane on the way to Denver.

When we got to Denver we went to the aquarium. Eli enjoyed that, and most of the exhibits had low windows, so he could see right from the stroller, which was nice.

My friend from Queens, Lisa, met us after the aquarium. There's a picture below of her and Eli. We had a great dinner together, and Lisa and I were able to catch up back at Thom's cousin's house while Thom and Eli snoozed.

Friday afternoon we headed up to Vail for Thom's cousin, Matt's wedding on Saturday. Saturday morning we woke up to several inches of snow. Totally unprepared for that. Oh well. It did warm up through the day, and by the wedding, snow was melting and falling in sheets off rooftops and trees. The last picture is the three of us at the wedding.




We had to leave Vail pretty early on Sunday morning, but got to the airport fine. Eli pretty much slept the whole flight (Thom did, too). So my first Mother's Day, I spent two hours in the car, two hours navigating the car return and airport, and three hours on a plane. But at least I didn't have to cook dinner. We went to my parent's house and ordered Chinese. Eli gave me a spa package that included a steam treatment, a manicure and pedicure, and a one hour massage. Nice - I really look forward to using that! Anyhow, hope the rest of you mom's had a great Mother's Day, too! And thanks to Josh and Jenny for watching Lucy while we were gone!