We got back from our Steamboat Springs, CO ski vacation this past weekend. We had a really great time and I am so glad that we decided to go and didn't let having a 12-month old stop us. I get really anxious before trips with the baby, and then she does such a fantastic job that I wonder why I was ever worried about traveling with her in the first place.
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| Car ride to Tulsa |
She really was a super traveler. She slept on the flight from Tulsa to Denver. She slept on the drive from Denver to Steamboat. She slept on the drive from Steamboat to Denver, AND she slept on the flight from Denver to Tulsa. The only time she got fussy was on the last leg of the trip home (Tulsa to Fayetteville), but she had been in a car seat or on a plane the entire day. I didn't blame her...I would have been fussy too if it wasn't socially unacceptable for a 29-year-old to fuss and complain.
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| Flight from Denver to Tulsa |
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I think the main reason I was so nervous was because all of our travel fell smack dab in the middle of Claire's nap-times. Claire is not the best napper. She HATES to go to sleep, so I was really worried she wouldn't nap at all, or that they would be short, ineffective naps. However, this actually worked out to our advantage. The car and plane rides lulled our sweet baby to sleep and she spent the majority of our time in the car and on the plane snoozing. We were even lucky enough to get a "I didn't even know there was a baby on the plane" comment at the end of one of our flights.
I had packed a backpack specifically filled with toys for Claire and her diaper bag was stuffed full of drinks and snacks. I felt a little foolish for packing so much when all she did was sleep in transit, but if I had it to do all over again I wouldn't change a thing--better safe than sorry!
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