Alex and I just arrived in Boston after a whole day of air travel. I feel like I've just run a marathon and hiked to the summit of Everest. My left arm (the one I hold Alex on) is pretty much dead and lifeless,the muscles are so shot from carrying Alex around all day. Thank goodness he's skinny! I don't know what I'd have done if he was a normal kid.
As pooped as I feel, it couldn't have gone better. We got to the airport at 6:30AM (after a night of no sleep, Alex fell out of his big boy bed around 1AM and got stuck between the bed and the dresser and wouldn't calm down about it all night long, poor guy). We flew through the check-in and security process and waited for an hour and a half at our assigned gate. Alex, un characteristically, wanted to be held the entire time. Probably still traumatized from the night before. A half hour before boarding they announced that the flight was overbooked and they needed volunteers to go on different flights. Not being in a hurry, I volunteered and scored a non-stop flight to Boston (the original flight layovered in NY) AND a seat for Alex AND two meal vouchers AND a $200 coupon towards future travel. The only downside was we had to wait around the airport for another hour, which wasn't too big a deal.
Alex behaved himself most of the flight, there was about 30 minutes or so that he threw a major tantrum complete with screaming, scratching, crying and raisin throwing. It was just a tired tantrum and soon he passed out and stayed out for about an hour and a half.
We arrived without incident and caught a cab to John's hotel that was swarming with eBay people (John's here for eBay Live) and now we're eating a $30 room service meal of a cheese quesadilla and a hot dog waiting for John to get done at the party (which will likely be late tonight).
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