Back in PA for the holidays!

Well we finally made it to my parents house at 5am this morning, east coast time, after a 16 hour door to door trip and w/ a very tired baby who was up for 16 hours before falling asleep in the car for 2 hours :( Our trip was horrible to say the least and here is why:

*Our flight out of Sacramento was to leave at 1:35 and we didn't leave until 2 hours later. We sat on the runway for about 30 mins too (Chicago had bad weather, go figure!) and got diverted in the air to a "holding track" b/c of weather for maybe 15 mins.

*Our flight to Scranton airport (15 mins from my parents) was cancelled in Chicago and had to wait in a long line to get redirected to Newark, NJ (2 hours from my parents)

*No luggage! It's not arriving in Scranton until another 2 1/2 hours. We are still in our clothes from yesterday morning. Luckily, my mom has clothes for Mia.

Mia did not do well at all and screammmmmed on the first leg to Chicago while arching her back, throwing her head and arms....it was hell for about two hours and then Mia sorta calmed down (we wish we gave her benedryl in Sacramento, but forgot to). The lady diagonal to us said, "Oh she wasn't that bad!" Whatever! Josh and I basically were passing Mia back and forth and nothing calmed her until he took her in the back of the plane where the attendants gave her a choc chip cookie. That was short lived though.

When Mia would try to sleep, it'd only last for a min. She did however sleep maybe 20 mins and the baby diagonal to us (with the lady who said Mia didn't do that badly) started crying and woke Mia up. Grrr! THen all hell broke loose again. Josh and I really tried everything and nothing calmed her. I think ppl were getting p***** at us, but oh well. Mia didn't do well on the way to NJ either, was very antsy, cried, was wired to say the least from being up for so long. We wish we gave her Benedryl in Chicago but were too busy figuring out how to get home.

Josh and I lucked out and were able to bring the car seat on both legs with us. However, we could only use it for the 2nd leg b/c it was economy seating. The first leg's seats were so close together that when Mia was throwing her tantrum in the car seat, she kicked off of the seat in front of her. We had to hold her which was not fun.

Lesson we learned: Remember Benedryl and avoid Chicago at all costs!! We got cheap tix into Scranton, which is always $$$ to fly into, but we are going to be more selective of where our layovers are from now on.

We are very happy and thankful we had a safe flight and are glad to be home...finally!