Thursday, October 27, 2005
My first big plane trip... Woo hoo!
Mum was trying to remember why she had decided to book us on a midnight flight... After Mum checked us in, we went upstairs with Dad and waited to board our plane. There was a smiley little girl called Lily and her parents who were waiting near us and our parents were comparing our crawling (or not in my case) and other milestones. It turned out that Lily’s father wasn’t travelling either and Lily and I and our Mums had a row of 4 seats to ourselves which suited us very nicely! While Mum put our bags in the overhead lockers, she sat me in my seat and I spent a while closely examining the seat controls so that I was familiar with the seat recline position and the movie channels when it came time to use them! Lily and I had a bassinet each and although I'm a tall boy, I just fitted into my bassinet and I slept for about 2 hours. It was soon light and when I woke up, Mum sat me up in my bassinet so that I could smile and look out at all the people in the cabin.
When we got off the plane in Sydney, my Nanna was there! I hadn’t seen her for months and although Mum kept showing me photos of her and Poppa I wasn’t sure when I would see her again! She arranged for us to spent our 2 hours together in the Qantas Chairman’s lounge which was very comfortable for us and I ate my weetbix and mashed banana amongst the businessmen and their laptops and mobile phones and did my best not to put sticky fingerprints on the leather chairs! Nanna hardly put me down for 2 hours and despite her best efforts to keep me going, I eventually fell asleep on Nanna and she held me until it was time for Mum and I to get on the shuttle to the international terminal.
On the next plane for our flight to Auckland, there was no bassinet for me, so I had to make myself comfortable on Mum as best I could. Things didn’t start very well when I put my hand into the hot toddler meal which they delivered for me. Luckily my soft little hand was OK, I had just got a fright. Once I calmed down, Mum laid me on the spare seat next to her and I slept for a little while with my head on her knee. Mum breastfed me each time the plane was taking off and landing to help my ears which seemed to work OK.
When we got to Auckland, we were met by Grandpa who lots of people say I look like. I think he looks a lot older and wiser than me! When we got to Grandpa’s new car, Mum fed me a bottle of milk before she put me into the car seat which Grandad had arranged and we drove to Grandma and Grandpa’s house. It was a long drive so I dozed on and off because I’d had my sleep routine for the day thrown out the window! Once we arrived, I met my Grandma too and had plenty of welcome smiles for her. Mum fed me my dinner, I had a bath and then I got to bed by about 8.30pm. It’s all different to home, and I get the feeling that I am being very closely watched here because everyone is so interested in me! Grandma and Grandpa have pin up boards with lots of photos of me which Mum has sent them, it appears they have been studying my life up until now!
Mum and I survived the trip, and now we'll be spending 2 and a half weeks at the Perry farm!
Mum was trying to remember why she had decided to book us on a midnight flight... After Mum checked us in, we went upstairs with Dad and waited to board our plane. There was a smiley little girl called Lily and her parents who were waiting near us and our parents were comparing our crawling (or not in my case) and other milestones. It turned out that Lily’s father wasn’t travelling either and Lily and I and our Mums had a row of 4 seats to ourselves which suited us very nicely! While Mum put our bags in the overhead lockers, she sat me in my seat and I spent a while closely examining the seat controls so that I was familiar with the seat recline position and the movie channels when it came time to use them! Lily and I had a bassinet each and although I'm a tall boy, I just fitted into my bassinet and I slept for about 2 hours. It was soon light and when I woke up, Mum sat me up in my bassinet so that I could smile and look out at all the people in the cabin.
When we got off the plane in Sydney, my Nanna was there! I hadn’t seen her for months and although Mum kept showing me photos of her and Poppa I wasn’t sure when I would see her again! She arranged for us to spent our 2 hours together in the Qantas Chairman’s lounge which was very comfortable for us and I ate my weetbix and mashed banana amongst the businessmen and their laptops and mobile phones and did my best not to put sticky fingerprints on the leather chairs! Nanna hardly put me down for 2 hours and despite her best efforts to keep me going, I eventually fell asleep on Nanna and she held me until it was time for Mum and I to get on the shuttle to the international terminal.
On the next plane for our flight to Auckland, there was no bassinet for me, so I had to make myself comfortable on Mum as best I could. Things didn’t start very well when I put my hand into the hot toddler meal which they delivered for me. Luckily my soft little hand was OK, I had just got a fright. Once I calmed down, Mum laid me on the spare seat next to her and I slept for a little while with my head on her knee. Mum breastfed me each time the plane was taking off and landing to help my ears which seemed to work OK.
When we got to Auckland, we were met by Grandpa who lots of people say I look like. I think he looks a lot older and wiser than me! When we got to Grandpa’s new car, Mum fed me a bottle of milk before she put me into the car seat which Grandad had arranged and we drove to Grandma and Grandpa’s house. It was a long drive so I dozed on and off because I’d had my sleep routine for the day thrown out the window! Once we arrived, I met my Grandma too and had plenty of welcome smiles for her. Mum fed me my dinner, I had a bath and then I got to bed by about 8.30pm. It’s all different to home, and I get the feeling that I am being very closely watched here because everyone is so interested in me! Grandma and Grandpa have pin up boards with lots of photos of me which Mum has sent them, it appears they have been studying my life up until now!
Mum and I survived the trip, and now we'll be spending 2 and a half weeks at the Perry farm!
# posted by Connor McDonald @ 12:12 PM 
