Sunday, January 13, 2008

Home... but truckless


We are home!! What an adventure. On last Thursday the dealership said that the car would be done on Friday afternoon so we booked flights to Spokane and then have a shuttle come pick us up and take us to Kellogg to pick it up. When we arrived there on Friday we were told that they had broken a piece while putting it back together and it would be done on Monday/Tuesday.... if it worked when they started it! James by this time was going INSANE so we headed to a motel. It wasn't long until we were on the phone with my parents trying to figure out how we could fly home. We eventually booked flights home for the next day and my parents' friends from Spokane came out to pick us up. We flew out of Spokane at noon, arrived in Seattle at 3, flew to Calgary at 5, and then flew to Regina at 8! And we were home at 11! It was so nice to sleep in our own bed and put Sommer in her crib. James will be flying back down to Spokane (and then heading over to Kellogg, where the truck is) in 2 weeks to pick it up. Plenty of time for them to have the truck fixed!

Sommer was an excellent little traveller through all this. We are so fortunate to have a good baby. She slept during each plane ride since I fed her while we were taking off. But after 3 plane rides she was a little crabby when we got home but I got in the bath-tub with her and she settled down nicely for bed. Today she is enjoying having her swing back and has spent much of the day sleeping in it.

2 comments:

Mike said...

WOW what a pain that must have been, especially for James. Maybe next year you should fly return ;)

Oh yeah, welcome back.

Anonymous said...

She is getting so big! You are a beautiful Mommy!