A Travel Day to Remember (Part 4)

A Travel Day to Remember (Part 1)
A Travel Day to Remember (Part 2)
A travel Day to Remember (Part 3)

Even though we were given the green light to board the plane, we were far from being out of the woods.

Princess’s cries quickly turned to laughter. Once we boarded, I searched around for her Dad. Within seconds I spotted his smiling blue eyes. “Look there’s daddy,” I whispered to Princess. “I want to sit next to daddy, she yelled. Hollywood couldn’t have written a better script.

I wish I could say that it was smooth sailing from there, but the Man upstairs had other plans. Once we got off the plane we headed straight for baggage claim. As luck would have it, our suitcases were neatly lined up right outside the JetBlue office with the exception of Baby O’s umbrella stroller. Coincidentally that song, You had a Bad Day, could be heard blaring throughout the airport. After about ten minutes of trying to explain our story to the airline employee, I spotted the black garbage bag it had been wrapped in. “There it is on the belt!” I screamed. My hubby ran over and grabbed it, before it went around for another time.

Now all we had to do was pick up our car rental. We chose Exotic Car Rental because we heard wonderful reviews. The only problem was that we reserved a sedan, which couldn’t hold all of our luggage. The attendant had no problem upgrading to an SUV. At that moment, Princess began jogging in place, which was code for having to go to the bathroom.” “I have to go potty,” she moaned. In that instant, I dropped what I was doing and ran with her to the restroom. I prayed that my hubby saw that I left my wallet on the counter with all my money, credit cards, and whatnot inside.

By the time Princess and I got to the bathroom, I thought she might have peed on herself. She held her crouch and continued doing her bathroom dance. There was no time to cover the toilet seat with paper. I picked her up and held her over the thrown. “Go ahead pee,” I instructed. I felt warm liquid pour over my feet. When I looked down, I had urine all over my left shoe and the bottom of my pant leg. As if this day couldn’t get any worse, now I have pee all over my foot. It’s kinda funny that nothing got on her.

Once we returned to the car rental counter, everything was all set. All we had to do was get in the car and install the car seats. It took a forever for the guy to find our SUV. Once we spotted it, putting in Princess’s booster seat was pretty easy. However, Baby O’s was a whole other story. I found out about the good interior of the car, which made us feel comfortable sitting on a neoprene seat covers.

You’d think we’d be pros at installing car seats after having two kids and having installed seven of them. That totally was not the case. The hubs and I argued over how to secure the darn thing. By this time, he broke into a sweat trying to put it in, and we’d had about enough. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted another family with in an infant.

I shouted from across the parking lot, “Do you have an infant car seat? DO YOU HAVE AN INFANT CAR SEAT?”

“Yes,” said the Dad, as they were getting ready to leave.

“Do you mind helping us?” I asked.

“Sure,” he replied.

He followed me to the car and within 15 minutes, the car seat was securly fastened and we were ready to hit the road.

We arrived at the hotel after 9PM. We were all hungry and exhausted. We grabbed a bite to eat at a local restaurant, headed back to the hotel, and called it a night. The kids were out like a light.

Have you experienced anything like this? Stay tuned for our vacation wrap up with lots of photos.