After Christmas we had a very relaxing weekend before hoping on a flight back to Los Angeles. We hung out at Grandma and Papa's home and had leftover Christmas dinner and soaked in each other's company. The girls ran around the property and we all piled into the rental car and went for a walk around the reservoir. Alex's little Terrible Twos independence got the best of her and she wanted to get out and walk and push the stroller and "do myself" and whip off her gloves and hat. Oh toddlers lol. We let her until we couldn't walk that slowly anymore and James popped her up on his shoulders.
We were truly sad to leave and head back.
Monday morning we got up at 4:30 a.m. and packed the car on the coldest day we had while we were out there. Our flights went very smoothly with very little drama and the girls were just perfect the whole day. They napped in the car on the way home from the airport and that helped them get back on track with their schedule here (for the most part - the mid day nap has been a bit early but otherwise they've been perfect!), we put them to bed right on time at 8.
For travel, I learned what I absolutely need and don't need, and was able to take one less carry on than last time. We learned that equal length flights are better than one short one and one long one. We learned that early morning travel is better for us. We learned that we should just get the luggage carts even though they cost a bit of money ($10 for two) for such a short time of use - its still worth it. We learned that people are more patient with little ones than we expected.
Checking out the falls
Josie pushing her stroller
Alex doing it "myself" with the assistance of Grandma
Little Josie
Settling in for our first flight.
Josie enjoys the view at Bradley
After take off, we can put the girls in their seat together.
They enjoyed a snack and an episode of Daniel Tiger.
Alex got cozy and fell asleep. In fact both girls
took nice long naps on our first flight!
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