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In one week we'll be on a plane to Australia. Or at the airport, I don't know what our flight time is exactly.
Our first trip back in over 6 years, I can't believe it's been that long. I'm looking forward to being back, even if it's only for 3 weeks. I'm not really looking forward to the long flight with Dashiell in tow. He was fine when we took him to South Africa last year in February/March, but he was a hell of a lot less mobile and active than he is now, and he slept more, so it's going to be a real challenge. At least this time he has his own seat, and nowadays you strap in the car seat into the airline seat, so at least I can restrain him during meals and such so I can eat without having to try and consume food with a flailing child. Also it'll be nice to not have to have him on my lap most of the time, though with an infant you do get a bulkhead seat with a cot that they can attach to the wall... but bulkhead seats in economy mean fuck-all leg room (we got bulkhead seats in business class once, when we got upgraded due to some problem, loads of legroom there, hehe).
Apparently Prez's dad told him that the main reason he's excited we're coming is because of Dashiell. Ah, grandparents :P It's so nice to feel wanted.
We arrive in Sydney Sunday morning the 23rd, at oh-god-something in the morning. Every time I've flown in there the flight's been like an hour early due to great weather conditions, so it ends up being close to 6am (airport opening time) when we arrive.
Tuesday through Friday we'll be going out to the Blue Mountains. We had been thinking about a trip out there, and the other day decided on seeing if we could get a cottage and invite some people along rather than go by ourselves. Grandparents were called and invited, and I invited the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nikkles along too. A cottage is nicer when you have a kiddo around, and if there's several people that are coming, it's more economical than a hotel room.
The place looks really nice, and I'm looking forward to this little trip. The cottage is in Katoomba, which is well situated in the Blue Mountains. We're hoping to go to Jenolan Caves as well while we're there.
Once back in Sydney on the 28th, we have no fixed plans until we leave the following week on Thursday to go to Melbourne. Our attendance is required at a wedding on Saturday, and that will be very awesome too. The wedding itself is out in the country, and we won't be in Melbourne proper until Sunday afternoon, where we'll stay until Tuesday evening when we have a flight back to Sydney.
A couple more for-now unscheduled days until we leave to go back to the US on, I think, the Sunday the 14th. I wish we were able to stay longer than 3 weeks, but I'll take what we can get.
Bring on vacation!
Our first trip back in over 6 years, I can't believe it's been that long. I'm looking forward to being back, even if it's only for 3 weeks. I'm not really looking forward to the long flight with Dashiell in tow. He was fine when we took him to South Africa last year in February/March, but he was a hell of a lot less mobile and active than he is now, and he slept more, so it's going to be a real challenge. At least this time he has his own seat, and nowadays you strap in the car seat into the airline seat, so at least I can restrain him during meals and such so I can eat without having to try and consume food with a flailing child. Also it'll be nice to not have to have him on my lap most of the time, though with an infant you do get a bulkhead seat with a cot that they can attach to the wall... but bulkhead seats in economy mean fuck-all leg room (we got bulkhead seats in business class once, when we got upgraded due to some problem, loads of legroom there, hehe).
Apparently Prez's dad told him that the main reason he's excited we're coming is because of Dashiell. Ah, grandparents :P It's so nice to feel wanted.
We arrive in Sydney Sunday morning the 23rd, at oh-god-something in the morning. Every time I've flown in there the flight's been like an hour early due to great weather conditions, so it ends up being close to 6am (airport opening time) when we arrive.
Tuesday through Friday we'll be going out to the Blue Mountains. We had been thinking about a trip out there, and the other day decided on seeing if we could get a cottage and invite some people along rather than go by ourselves. Grandparents were called and invited, and I invited the lovely
nikkles along too. A cottage is nicer when you have a kiddo around, and if there's several people that are coming, it's more economical than a hotel room. The place looks really nice, and I'm looking forward to this little trip. The cottage is in Katoomba, which is well situated in the Blue Mountains. We're hoping to go to Jenolan Caves as well while we're there.
Once back in Sydney on the 28th, we have no fixed plans until we leave the following week on Thursday to go to Melbourne. Our attendance is required at a wedding on Saturday, and that will be very awesome too. The wedding itself is out in the country, and we won't be in Melbourne proper until Sunday afternoon, where we'll stay until Tuesday evening when we have a flight back to Sydney.
A couple more for-now unscheduled days until we leave to go back to the US on, I think, the Sunday the 14th. I wish we were able to stay longer than 3 weeks, but I'll take what we can get.
Bring on vacation!