So today we’re going to UK for Christmas, to meet and stay with Grandma & Granddad for Christmas. It’s not as simple as you’d think and required a lot of preparation and thought, this is the first time we’d travel with you, a seven week old baby.
(Fully loaded and raring to go! Survival gear…. CHECK!)
The first part of our journey began with the bus, 341 direct to the train station. Apart from the bus not arriving for 15 minutes you enjoyed yourself, staying very quiet and quite contempt throughout the journey.
(Your first bus journey… you were asleep..)
So your next first was the train journey from Hoofddorp to Schiphol Airport. We were going to take the bus all the way but the times worked out better for the train, plus it got you another first of day! Congratulations Sweatpea
(Surprisingly you were asleep again for the whole journey, all 5 minutes of it)
The next, your first plane journey, was the one I was most worried about. I remember saying once, ‘What worse that a crying baby on a plane?’… ‘Your crying baby on a plane!’. We were both extremely, in a good way, surprised with how you were, an Angel. You slept from take off to when we picked up the hire car an hour or so after we landed!
They told us there was going to be a total of 5 babies on the plane. When you’re older you’ll know the phrase.. ‘a cats chorus’.. this was the first thing that went though my mind when I heard that, sorry!
(The big blue metal bird of KLM that’s taking us to the UK)
(On the way to the plane, no turning back!)
(Mami lulling you to sleep as we board)
(Hoping a feed before take off will help you sleep for the remainder of the flight)
(Not too sure what the French man next to us was thinking… ‘why me?’)
So you slept through:
- 99% of the flight & the landing
- Customs and passport control (You didn’t get to pull your face to match your passport picture!)
- The chaos that is baggage pickup in Manchester airport
- First steps out into the fresh rainy air of Manchester
- Bus to the car hire place and the eventual pickup of the car
- BUT WHEN WE GOT IN THE CAR, YOU WOKE UP!!
Let’s hope the journey to Romania at the end of December will go the same way. If it does then you’re well on your way to getting a ‘real’ unicorn when you’re older!
Daddy