Last weekend…

This is really just a long boring story of how our trip to PA went this last weekend… Just don’t say I didn’t warn you that it’s a long… Boring… Recount of events.

We went to visit Melisa’s Grand Parents last weekend (Tim’s Mom & Dad) in Pennsylvania. They had a 60th wedding anniversary party on Saturday night & there were around 100-150 people there!

Anyhow, it was the first trip for us to take since we’ve had kiddos & boy was it a learning experience. We brought one large bag to check, 4 bags to carry on, 2 car-seats, and an “umbrella stroller”, one Taven on foot, one Bradey in the stroller or in a “front-pack”, strap on, crazy contraption to allow hands-free carrying of a child…

Luckily, when we got there, I saw we could check one bag per person for free, so I went ahead & checked one of the 4 planned carry-ons so we could eliminate some of our weight on & off the planes.

We gate-checked Bradey’s car-seat & the stroller & had Bradey strapped on Mommy’s chest while she dragged one carry on. I carried Taven (he dropped to the floor when we got close to the plane & wouldn’t even think about getting up due to the loud noise of the plane’s engines), 2 backpacks, and his car-seat.  Taven was fine once we actually got on the plane.

Every flight, we ended up being the last ones to sit down (trying to find a place for one carry on, buckling in Taven’s car-seat, getting myself situated, getting Bradey out of the contraption so Melisa can sit down, & all of us getting buckled in. Oy…

We had a 2 hour flight to Detroit, MI, then a one hour flight on to Erie, PA. (And the same in reverse coming home… Duh…).

Anyhow, Taven slept (well, attempted to sleep) on a comforter folded up on the ground in our room, and Bradey slept in a pack-&-play in another room and Melisa’s Aunt’s house. (Nice house by the way, 13 Acres, large pond, good-sized work shop, great house with 2 patios/porches.)

We spent Thursday crashing & getting settled in, Friday with the Parents (Tim & Penny), Grand Parents, and the Choates (Justin, Brooke, & Logan), and Saturday was getting ready for the party & partying.

I haven’t had a chance to pull the pictures off of the camera (see the previous post about computer problems for a clue as to why…) But when I do get the pictures off, I’ll post a little gallery for you all.

Welp, I gotta scoot.