9. We earned approximately 57 free drinks for shopping (breakfast, lunch and dinner) at Starbucks because it's the one place our kids are guaranteed to eat something.
8. Our children take the phrase "Make yourselves at home" quite literally. Thank you Beth & Amy, providers of toys. And wine.
7. Each and every birthday should be celebrated as the joyous event it is, be it with a catered event for friends and family or a bunch of strangers on a plane shouting "Happy Birthday, Guy in Seat 40D!!"
6. A child who wakes puking at 3AM will not make a good travelling companion at 3PM.
5. Always bring a grandparent when taking three kids to an unfamiliar museum. Or a familiar one for that matter. Thank you, Skip & Renee. We couldn't - and wouldn't - have done it without you.
4. As I've been saying for months (years?), airport travel with three small children at the holidays is indeed the Fifth Circle of Hell. (See Dante's Inferno, Personal Appendices.) Portable Entertainment Devices - Don't travel without them.
3. Five glasses of wine is no substitute for one Ambien. Just sayin'.
2. Living in Oregon for the last decade, there have been three things we missed about the Midwest: family, friends and food. We are now satisfied. Thank you, "Christmas Eve Dinner", Portillo's, Uno's, Vienna Beef Hot Dogs and Michael's Custard.
1. CHILD. LEASHES. ROCK.
It was a wonderful, exhausting, sentimental trip of a
Thank you all for supporting the
Also thanks to OMSI - you saved us approximately $160 in museum entry fees, Starbucks - for feeding Cassie, "Sue" - for finally allowing Ted to see a real T-Rex, and Mother Nature for allowing us to visit snow without having to drive in snow.
Photos to follow just as soon as I have the energy to upload the 6 bazillion pictures from my camera. In the meantime, I'll leave you with this parting morsel of travel knowledge:
Children do not understand time zones.
Reggie was up at four this morning.
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