Ok...so I've been meaning to post for awhile now but we ran out of internet time and I just bought more time at the store today. My goal is to post something from each day that are here so that you can get a daily taste of what we are doing while in Cape Town and surrounding areas.
Day 1 and 2 - March 22-23, 2010:
Flight to Cape Town wasn't too bad. Anderson slept about a total of 6 hours in the 28 hour period. He was pretty good considering the amount of sleep he missed. The flight from Denver to Minneapolis was easy.
The flight from Minneapolis to Amsterdam was a little more interesting. We gave Anderson Benadryl thinking that he would knock out for a few hours but it didn't have any effect on him. Luckily, we got to sit in the bulk head seats and had a little extra leg room. I had requested a bassinet for Anderson...the flight attendent attached it to the wall. He could only go in it if he couldn't sit up...so he had to be asleep when we put him in it. Needless to say we didn't end up using the bassinet! A nice man decided to move seats so that we had an extra seat for Anderson in between Brad and I. The bulk head seats were nice but it was difficult not having the diaper bag right in front of me.
On the flight from Amsterdam to Cape Town we decided to sit in a row (three seats across) with an extra seat in between us. One nice thing about international flights is that they are often not full. So, it was easy to find an extra seat for Anderson even though we didn't have to pay the full ticket price (you do have to pay 10% even for infants under 2...different from domestic travel where it is completely free). We liked this set up the best. Anderson had a seat to lay down on and we didn't have to worry about bothering anyone sitting next you us. We will request this as much as possible on the way back. Also, we weren't in the bulk head seats this time so the diaper bag was right by me. I preferred this as well.
We arrived in Cape Town at 11:00 pm (8 hours difference from Denver) and we were picked up by Steve (a local that manages the property we rented for the trip). Brad crashed right away and slept pretty well through the night...I guess those crazy, random ER hours come in handing sometimes...he can sleep anytime of the day! For Anderson and I, it was a bit of a different story. We were up from about 1am-5am the first night. Its gotten better since then and now he's sleeping through the night without any interuptions. It took about 5 nights though.
Here is a picture of our place...trust me you don't want to see any pictures of us on the flight...it wasn't pretty!
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