The Trip Back to Green Bay

Wednesday 19th September 2007
at 03:40pm

Alot of people have told us how inspiring they find this trip and that talking to us makes them want to go out and do something crazy for themselves. Let me tell you, today was crazy. If I was speaking this post as opposed to writing it, I would have pronounced crazy a little something like K-RAZY cause that’d be the best way to emphasise it. In fact, to make sure my expression was really being understood, it would have been delivered after a big, long, deep breath, a shake of my head and a wry smile of disbelief.

Kelly was up at 4:30 this morning. I, in true fashion was up at 5. Not that my being up at 5 is true fashion, it’s more the getting up half an hour later than Kelly that rings the bell. We had to in order to get the kids up and fed before our cab to LaGuardia arrived. Instead of stepping through the day one event at a time I’ll lay it all out nice and easy:

0500 – Awake to get ourselves ready
0530 – Woke the kids up to get them dressed and ready
0600 – Downstairs with all possessions in tow for a quick breakfast
0615 – Supposed to be ready for the cab that had arrived
0620 – Got into the cab where the driver had told us he didn’t think, thanks to the traffic, we’d make it in time
0730 – Arrived at LaGuardia and checked in
0915 – Departed LaGuardia
1045 – Arrived in Chicago
1050 – Found the gate for our connecting flight to Green Bay
1125 – Departed Chicago
1215 – Arrived Green Bay
1220 – Collected our bags and found our hotel transfer
1235 – Back in our room feeling like it was dinner time not lunch

The 6 hours as described above honestly felt like an entire day. The transfer from our hotel to LaGuardia through Manhattan, whilst great on the eye, was very long with two very awake, very excited little boys. And this was just the beginning.  Luc slept for most of the time we were waiting at the airport which meant he was in fine form come the flight to Chicago and though Ben didn’t sleep he was ready to wreak havoc too. At one point Kelly and I actually wondered if they had conspired against us as payback for the second trip to the city.

The one shining light was the very lovely gentleman, Jack, that sat behind us through all of the ups and downs. Through Luc dancing and jumping like he had Jack’s beans in his pants to Ben wanting to do everything but sit in his chair and telling us just loud enough for everybody to hear. Despite that and the frustration that must have been showing on our faces he leaned over to tell us how fantastic he thought our children were and that we had a lovely little family. Neither of us could believe what he was saying as the rest of the plane stared at us like we had just burnt their houses down. In saying that he continued to chat with us whilst we disembarked and whether he meant it or whether he was doing it just to make us feel better he certainly did a good job.

The rest of the trip as described was reasonably smooth. Needless to say we retired very early with hopes of catching up on as much sleep as we could.

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