flight day

We have arrived safely in Bellingham, WA. Dennis is here, Pop is here, I'm here. Our baggage is NOT here, however. And our flight was 2 hours late in landing. This means that we were on the plane for 2 and a half hours longer than we anticipated being on the plane. Words cannot describe the way I feel about Delta at the moment. (Delay Everyone's Luggage Through Atlanta) We were among the first people at the gate in Atlanta, where we had a 3 hour layover. Must have been the folks in Birmingham that messed things up. And we were delayed because of all those bad storm systems that were over the west today.

Dennis behaved beautifully. He was very sweet and made some new friends in the airport. He got tired of being in Atlanta, though, and we had to walk laps for the last 15 minutes before we boarded. The flight was FULL. And we had the pleasure of sitting in the exact last row with a stranger (who fortunately was pretty nice). On the long flight, he watched his dvd for 20 minutes, talked and flirted for another 15, then fell asleep across our laps and slept in various weirdly contorted positions for the next 4 hours. Then he woke up, because his little internal clock knew that we should have been landing at this time. Except we didn't. He watched more sesame videos and podcasts for awhile, and climbed up on my head and Pop's head and banged on the guy's head who was sitting in front of us. He threw Elmo and Frog to the floor repeatedly, ate some goldfish crackers, tossed some goldfish crackers, ate some raisins, drank some juice...typical toddler stuff. No major meltdown, and I'm so proud, because I would like to have a major meltdown myself.

We're looking forward to a nice vacation now, and I hope that leg of the return flight doesn't have us trapped in a plane for over 7 hours takeoff-to-landing.

Just checked Delta's website. Our baggage is at the airport. We should have it delivered to us within 12 hours. I have 4 diapers to get me through until then... And no extra clothes... And our jackets are in the luggage...

Dennis got to borrow a pod from his cousins to sleep in, and he's out now. I will be too, almost immediately!!!