The flight yesterday was fairly non-eventful, aside from some lousy customer service at the Concourse A McD’s (which Margie called the “how are we doing?” number on the bag to complain about). Well, that, and both the parking garages and adjoining lots at DIA being flagged as “FULL!”, complete with sandwich signs at the ticket gates (which was a bit too late); Margie finally spotted a not-too-bad slot on the outside lot that we parked in, and we actually passed several empty stalls in the garages on our way to the building.
The latter intense search was made a bit more interesting by my being (a) the driver and (b) on the phone with someone from Singapore about a major payroll system failure in the UK. Joy.
Anyway, as we sat on the plane and listened to kids crying, kids shouting, kids carrying on, then looked over at Katherine playing with her Leapster, or looking out the window, or generally not being any more annoying than she is at home, we both realized how good a traveller she’s gotten to be. Regardless of whether it’s her own good nature, or a matter of “practice, practice, practice,” or both, it’s quite a relief.
I’m actually wondering if we might think about doing some just-our-family someplace-other-than-California travelling this year. 🙂
Back to Fearie again…
With the quake, that’s probably how some folks would spell it … 😉
I’m betting some of that good travelling is the result of her parents as well. Good journey!
Thanks. We like to think we brung her up right. And certainly experience (first airline trip at 1 month, and she’s travelled more at age 5 than I had by 25 — or 30) has something to do with it.
The car ride to KOA is a great training ground. With about 90 minutes to most legs, it’s easy for most kids to handle. Katherine has been doing this since birth (with some leeway for years 0-2). She’s a very good traveller as far as I can tell.
And when she sings, she mostly stays on key!
I’m actually kinda pleased by her musical talents. I’ve been teaching her a couple of tunes, and not only does she enjoy singing them, but she does so passably well.