Traveling Solo

Last week my mom, brother, Briggs (which means me too) were on spring break. My dad took off work, so I guess he was part of the spring break crowd. Justin had to work...BOO!!!!

Anyway since we all had time off we decided to make the best of it and spend some of the time together, BUT that meant Briggs and I would have to fly there by ourselves....YIKES!

So here is the picture of Briggs and myself before we took off on our flight...ALONE...without daddy...I'm gonna be honest...I was pretty nervous.




We usually fly direct from Birmingham to Tampa. But since we got our tickets so late, we had a layover in Charlotte, NC. When we booked the tickets I was thinking, no biggy...

It was a pretty smooth trip...EXCEPT our plane from Birmingham was delayed an hour...our layover in Charlotte was 1.5 hrs...you do the math...that means we had 30 minutes to get from one plane to the next. I was thinking...ok..I can do this.

Well I forgot to take into account deboarding, wait for stroller (which is under the plane) and THEN...see this picture below...


Oh yes...we were in terminal "E" and we had to go to "B"...that means mommy got to RUN (I'm not joking), down 4 of these puppies. If you look closely, you can't even see to the end of this terminal...that's how long ALL FOUR of them were. I exercise and would say I'm in fairly good shape. I ran, I'm sure over a mile, and of course when I get to our terminal I see the waiting area EMPTY. I was SWEATING, could barely breath, and then I just started crying b/c I'm thinking I'm gonna be sleeping in the airport tonight with a 9.5 month old.

Good news...they had already booked us on the next flight. So we had 1.5 hrs to compose myself, grab something to eat and play a little...see below :)

And here he is happy as always in his stroller. This was after our MUCH WASTED EFFORT marathon run through the airport.


I was pretty prepared for whatever might come my way since I was by myself. So here is a picture of our playtime in the corner of the airport.

I'm sure when I sat down and started unpacking my backpack with the mini play area for my baby, people were saying to themselves...OH BOY...LOOK AT THIS CHICK.


And the much dreaded plane flight...after our crazy day, I fully expected this...



which very quickly changed to this...


and then shortly after changed to this...BIG SIGH (from mommy and I'm sure the entire plane of passengers)


And after a LONG day...we finally arrived at our destination with a crew to welcome us...Rah-rah, Papa, and Uncle Russ.

And then my stress was over b/c I was with my momma who would hardly let me lift a finger :)

Don't know how much of a spring break it was for her b/c she was taking care of ALL her babies (my dad) included (sorry dad...but it's kind of true..hehe). But I think she enjoyed the extra company..hints..my little traveling buddy.

More pics from our actual time together coming soon....I PROMISE MOM!