We departed Dublin on Tuesday, November 26th. Our flight departed at 1pm, so it wasn't too rushed getting up, ready, and the last few things packed in the morning. Luckily when we checked in, the desk agent was able to put an empty seat between Paul and I, so we had 3 seats for the 3 of us. It didn't take too long to get checked in and through security- once we did we let Gemma out of the stroller, and she squealed with happiness at all the space in which to run!
The 8 hour flight to Chicago Gemma spent walking up and down the aisles, watching movies and playing with apps on the iPad, looking at books and toys, saying 'hiya' to everyone who passed, and eating lots of puffs. She only slept about 45 minutes, but she was fairly happy the entire time considering the lack of sleep and cramped quarters!
We had to change terminals and go through security again in Chicago with not a huge amount of time to spare. Once we reached our gate, we let Gemma loose again, and she was delirious with tiredness at this point! She just ran around giggling. Once we got on the plane, we sat and de-iced for quite awhile, and Gemma got pretty fussy at this point. She then slept most of the flight to Minneapolis. Once in MSP she was running and giggling again! We got to Margo's place around 7:30pm local time (1:30am to us). Gemma played with Freya for a very short while, had a bottle, then crashed.
At around 3am, Gemma started to fuss, and we brought her into bed with us. It was quite funny, all day she had only wanted me, but at this point, she only wanted 'Daddy'! I've taught her well! We got up for the day around 7, and within a couple of days Gemma was pretty much adjusted to MN time!
Some pics from the journey:
In the car park at Dublin airport waiting for the shuttle to the terminal.
Gemma just discovered she turned the light on with the remote control!
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