Goal #65: Take Ryan on an Plane

A few weeks ago we flew up to Chicago. This was Ryan's first time on a plane. Technically he had been on a plane when I was 12 weeks pregnant.

Me being a mother, I worried. I wasn't sure how he'd do on the plane. I just didn't want to have "that kid" that screamed the entire plane ride. I got him a few new things to play with - a travel size magna doodle, some hot wheels cars, a miniature Mr. Potato Head, and 2 sticker books. He also had tons of snacks. Snacks keep him quiet.

On the way to the airport!

Riding on the moving walk to the terminal.

Ryan wondering when we were going to get on the plane.

On the way up he was a little fussy but finally fell asleep.

The flight was only 2 hours and 15 minutes. Not too bad but there was a lot of turbulence.

Once we got to the hotel they provided us with a teeny tiny crib. I'm just glad we didn't have to bring the pack and play with us. Ryan checked out his new bed and thoroughly enjoyed himself...

The hotel had an awesome pool. There was a regular pool with lap lanes and a volleyball net, a hot tub and then a gigantic kiddie pool. There was a frog water slide, buckets hanging in the air that filled up with water and dumped out and the bubbler things you can see in the picture below. If you stand over one or two of them the others shoot really high.

Ryan was a little scared of the water at first and kept crying and calling for me but when he realized it was ok we couldn't get him out!!

Then he just wanted to play with the pool noodle. He was whacking Jimmy with it which was pretty funny.

We drove into the city one day just to check it out. Since it was really cold we didn't get out and walk anywhere. Plus parking is outrageous and they don't take the weekend off!

All the excitement wore Ryan out. I had to wake him up this day so we could get going.

Coming home Ryan did really well considering how long we were in the airport, on the plane, waiting for our bags, etc. It was not a fun time trying to get home. Anything that could go wrong did including our flight getting cancelled that morning. We missed the tornadoes here though. Our home survived.

We left Chicago at 36 degrees, rainy and windy and came home to 77 degrees and breezy. Ahhhh. It was good to be home!!