The Adventure Begins!

Here I am, safely in Calgary at Camille's place....

We arrived last night around 11 Calgary time (so about 1am home-time) after a 4 hour flight.

The flight itself was interesting, and I got my first taste of what it's like to travel with a toddler. With us went : car seat, stroller, Meg's giant suitcase, my backpacking backpack from Oz, and a big backpack each. We couldn't check in online and so we had to lug all our stuff to the check in desk and the oversized luggage area.

We were able to check in first due to having a baby with us, and we had to leave the stroller at the door. We were instructed upon sitting down how to hold a baby during taxi and take off (in the burping position, apparently. Clearly these people don't have babies. Theres no way you can hold a 14 month old like this successfully for more than 2 minutes). In the long run I ended up holding Wylie on my lap and pointing out the window at the lights. He did great in terms of take off, didn't cry at all.

It took about an hour and a half until he fell asleep and the only real way of getting him to sleep was for me to hold him with my leg propped up on the seat in front of me so that I was something of a reclining bed. This worked great until I realized I was starving and wanted to eat. I had put the apples Aunt Jane had sent with us on the far side of me, between me and the wall of the plane. The wraps were in the pocket in front of me. So theres Meg, reaching around me, under my leg and to the far side of me, all the while we aren't really talking because we don't want to wake up Wylie... and then theres me, one arm pinned under Wylie, kinda trying to eat with my free hand, but I can't really do much... it was amusing over all.

He slept most of the way, which was good. Finally got to Cam's and settled in around 1am (C-Time) where I promptly went to bed. Today has been rather surreal, as things are familiar and yet totally not all at once. We went to the mall and wandered about... and we went for a drive into downtown Calgary... took a few pictures which I will put up soon.

Tomorrow is the ZOO!! I'm going to the zoo, zoo, zoo... you can come too too too... Lots of pictures will follow.