Travel Log, 1st installment

Travelling with a baby is not as bad as it sounds!

We left in the morning from Saipan and flew straight to Nagoya. Savita slept most of the way. Arrived in Nagoya around 12. Our plane was set to leave at 2 pm. We boarded and sat on the plane for 2 hrs before being told there was a mechanical problem, the part was being flown to Nagoya and we would not leave until the next morning. We were given food vouchers so we could get some food while NW was trying to sort out the hotel situation. Ever seen 400 people trying to get some food from the only place in the terminal all at once? Not a pretty sight. Finally got us some tucker. By 6:30 we were given vouchers and directions to the hotel. Yep, we had to walk! I don't mind walking but a 15 pound child gets pretty heavy after a while and it was freezing. Savita made 400 friends, smiling at everybody and trying to get them to play with her. She slept while we're waiting at the airport and had her picture taken with a 100 Japanese HS students. At the hotel she enjoyed her freedom by playing on the bed and slept through the night. We brought Benadryl so we could drug her up, but we never used it.

Left early the next day for the long haul from Nagoya to Detroit, 11 and half hrs. They could not get the video to work during the flight, which sucked. Especially when you don't get to sleep much. That seems to be the only drawback of traveling with a small child, you don't get to sleep as much as you'd normally would. Savita was in and out and Thu and I perfected the tag team eating, feeding and changing. For some reason she didn't like the changing table on the plane much, but other than that she never gave a peep until we did a nose dive during the descent. Obviously Savita's ears couldn't keep up with the eaqualization. She managed to have 400 people being concerned about her well being. We all worked up a sweat the last 10 minutes of the flight.

Had a pretty smooth transition to the next plane, our flight from Detroit to Dallas. Savita slept most of the way, no problems with her ears. In all I think we spend something like 36 or 38 hrs traveling and racked up thousands of comped airmiles. Once in Dallas she was a big hit with the whole family and Thu and I would lose track of her once in a while.