First trip for the newest Traveling Walker

Well we made it to Florida and are settled in, in Orlando. Cameron is loving being able to go outside! First a quick recap of the flight.

Packing was definitely an adventure - usually when we come down to Florida we would take one suitcase for everything we have. We ended up with a large suitcase, a small suitcase, a hockey bag (filled with bouncer and pack n' play), the stroller, car seat, camera bag and diaper bag!!!!

We got dropped of at the airport at 9:00AM for our 10:40 flight. When we got to the check in counter we discovered that our flight to Atlanta had been canceled and that we had been re-booked on a flight Friday morning. After a while of figuring out what our options were we finally got transfered from Delta to US Air flying through Washington D.C. to Tampa.

Kristin then spent a while on the phone and on a nice person at the Syracuse airport's laptop trying to change our Avis rental from Orlando to Tampa so we could pick the car up there and drive to Orlando. She didn't have much success and eventually had to settle for booking an intermediate SUV for more than twice our original rental price.

Our flight from Syracuse to Washington ended up being about 20 minutes late which turned out to be a bit of an issue because we only had 30 minutes between our scheduled arrival time and departure time. Also adding to it is that in Washington if there is even a hint of snow they will not run the shuttles between the terminals so we had to go back out through security and back in to get to our next flight. Luckily they were waiting to board standby passengers when we arrived. We got on the plane and everyone was already seated but we were able to get on.

When we arrived in Tampa Kristin was able to get us a better deal with the rental car and we packed up, drove through Tampa rush hour and arrived in Orlando at Erin and Jason's house around 8:00pm.

Now for the most important information. On the first flight Cameron slept almost the whole way including take off and landing. The second flight he was awake and happy for take off and intermittently along the way but was perfectly happy to smile and look at all of the new faces on the plane. He was so well behaved!!

So we have learned that even with a tough long day of traveling that Cameron still does well. Here is a quick shot of Cameron waiting for Mama to get the rental car.