Thanks so much for visiting
us during our journey,
Danny, LeeAnn
and Caroli! |
November 2, 2005
Travel Day Part 1
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Today
was Travel Day Part I. We left China at 9:00 at night and were dreading
the 12 hour flight mostly because of the unpredictability of a baby and
the fact that it was a 12 hour flight. Flying a long distance is a drag
unless you are in first class. In order to fly first class we would
have needed at least a third mortgage and a bank robbery.
We were also concerned that their would be about 600 other
unpredictable babies on the flight. The potential for odors and noise
was giving every adult in the check-in line pause.
We boarded the plane and almost immediately Caroli was asleep. We
were lucky. The rest of the babies took another half an hour to quiet
down. Then a wonderful thing happened. A most wonderful glorious thing
that we never would have expected took place. They brought us really
decent food! I still miss cheese burgers, but the meat(?) and noodles
were very tasty.
Unbelievably Caroli slept for a full 11.5 hours of the
12 hour flight. She slept on dad then on mom and then on dad again.
She could have been sleeping on the pilot’s lap and wouldn’t have known
any difference. While wetting diapers at a normal rate, she blessed us
by not doing anything worse. Bathrooms on airplanes are no place to
change diapers, but the only decent place to do so if there is a fully
loaded Pamper.
This brings me to the most fantastic invention of our time. The
little blue baby powder scented diaper baggy. Simply plop the nasty
diaper in, tie it shut and presto bingo - no more odor! Simply deposit
the blue baggy in the nearest trash receptacle and your job is done. If
the baby poo is too strong simply take a second blue baggy and hold it
to your face during the whole process. Considerate parents bring enough
blue baggies for the entire plane. Personally I think they should have
a Dangerous Diaper Detector built into every aircraft. When a nasty
diaper is detected the system automatically drops blue baggies for the
passengers throughout the plane. They would simply breathe into the
baggies until the diaper change was complete. I did notice that some
parents were changing diapers and not going to the bathroom to throw
them away. I don’t think these parents understand the purpose of the
pouch on the seat in front of them. These are bad and nasty parents.
So the flight was uneventful and Caroli did great on every level.
We hope that she does a repeat performance tomorrow. I am going to stop
writing now so I can do a pre-flight check for those little blue
baggies. |
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