Northern Trip - airplanes & cancer

K & I being picked up from the airport!

I have not posted for a few days because I have been in the northern portion of the US since the 25th.

K and I left for our destination on 3/25 via airplane. I was sooo nervous about flying with K since it was both our first time flying.

We got to the airport 2 hrs early. I was loaded down with one rolling back, my laptop bag, purse and a backpack loaded to the hilt with K's toys. DH dropped us off and said his goodbyes. We checked in the rolling bag and went through security and no mishaps. K and I stopped at one of the restaurants.  We sat by the windows so she could see the airplanes with the people loading and unloading. We shared a thing of fries and she had her grapefruit juice. I pointed out the planes and explained where the people were going and what they were doing with the bags. K' s eyes were glued to the window and she kept saying "airplane" and pointing at them.

Then we had about an hour to wait. We loaded our plane as one of the first families. Once K was on the plane she could not get enough of looking out the window. (We were told to put her "noisy toys" away - I never flown before & did not give thought to the noise of her toys bothering other people - the idea was to keep her happy.) Anyway, she LOVED the flight and looking out the window. K sat for 2 and 1/2 hours with out incident. She got to a point where she would say to me "Ears pop, candy please". During the flight I gave her laughy taffy to chew on to help with the ear popping. Also when she was looking out the window she kept saying "ocean" when she saw the clouds.

When it came time to unload, K was a little restless and started to get cranky. This was because she saw everyone else getting off the plan. Once she was off the plan she was fine. V picked us up and we went to get "real" pizza. K was happy to eat and to play with the ice in her water. From there we went to V's house and stayed the night. K was happy to run up and down the stairs and flop on V's bed. K did this all Friday night and Saturday mourning.  V (our cousin) made us breakfast on Saturday. She made scrambled eggs, home fries, toast and sausage. K was only interested in eating the toast with jelly and got jelly all over V's glass topped table and on the chair.


After that we got ready to go to Pop Pop's. We stopped at a florist to get pretty purple roses for Grandmom (she has stage 4 throat and lung cancer - hence the reason for our trip.). We stopped at Grandmom's and then at Pop Pops.

So we have been at Pop Pop's ever since.