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Tuesday July 25, 2006

Heading back to Denver

Today is only day 3 of Raible Road Trip #10, but it's likely to be the most stressful one. I'm at Portland's Airport (on their free wireless) getting ready to hop on a plane back to Denver. The Max worked great this morning. I caught it outside the Convention Center around 4:30 a.m. and was checked in before 6:00.

I land in Denver in a few hours, pick up the kids, and fly back - arriving back in Portland around 2:00 this afternoon. Abbie is 3 and 1/2 and Jack is almost 2. Jack will surely impress me with his deviant and defiant behavior. There's nothing like flying with a 2-year old. They won't sit still for more than 5 seconds, and they love to kick the seat in front of them. Should be interesting for sure - wish me luck!

10:30 a.m. Update: Arrived in Denver at 9:30. The CowBoy Bar on Terminal A is the best place to get power at DIA. There's 3 outlets in the corner on the left when you walk in. The kids should be here in an hour, our flight to Portland leaves at 12:30.

Update 2: We arrived in Portland virtually stress free at 2:00. The kids were great on the plane. Jack slept half the time and Abbie colored Dora pictures. The only hard part was carting two backpacks, 2 car seats and 2 kids through the Portland airport.

Posted in General at Jul 25 2006, 06:34:11 AM MDT 3 Comments
Comments:

I don't get why kids always do that kicking thing. I had a flight where 3 out of 4 flights (round trip, one connection) involved some kid kicking my seat. Gotta wonder why the kid's parents let them do this, because it's bloody irritating. I almost asked to change seats w/ the guy behind the kid so I could give the kid a taste of what it's like ;-)

Posted by Ken Yee on July 25, 2006 at 01:58 PM MDT #

In many cases "kids kicking the seats" is not something that parents can control. At least in my case. If I catch Jack kicking the seat, I tell him to stop, and that causes him to smile ear-to-ear and kick the seat ferouciously. Today, he was barely nudging the seat, so I just ignored it b/c I knew if I scolded him, it'd get much worse. Believe me, a parents worst nightmare is taking their kids on a flight. It sucks. It's embarrassing. However, every once in a while - you get lucky and they're good. Today, I had that and it was great.

Posted by Matt Raible on July 25, 2006 at 09:52 PM MDT #

Dora is invaluable when flying w/ little girls - as is anything related to any Disney princess. I learned this well when flying with my Abby (and the rest of the crew) to Orlando for Java in Action back in October.

Posted by Matt Stine on July 26, 2006 at 11:20 AM MDT #

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