Touchdown In Dublin

We touched down in Dublin today - Beth, RJ and I - with little incident. RJ was himself, squeaking like a canary throughout the airport and kept it up until the flight crew finally dimmed the lights 3 hours into the flight. At that point he fell right asleep.

The hard part will be getting him onto the new time schedule. We are currently 5 hours ahead of home (Ireland doesn't go onto daylight savings time until the end of March - usually it's 6 hours ahead). RJ took a couple short naps today and only got three hours of sleep on the plane (which is better than Beth or I did). He's sleeping now, but I'm hoping he doesn't wake up in the middle of the night.

Beth is adjusting similarly - she is sleeping now, trying to catch up herself. After all tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day in Ireland. We haven't made any real plans tomorrow. We're thinking that we'll be heading downtown for the parade - but we'll see what time everybody wakes up.

The First Family Airplane Trip

I took a few days off of blogging because, well, I was home with my family whom I hadn't seen in three weeks. It's quite amazing to see how much RJ has changed in those three weeks. He loves walking now! If he's awake, he's walking.

The weekend was just a little stressful, though. That's because today all three of us get on the airplane back to Ireland. The stress was due to the fact that we had to pack for Beth and RJ for a 6-week stay in Ireland.

I'm not sure how we're going to get through security yet. We have a full compliment of checked bags, carry-on luggage, carry-on hand bags, a car seat and a stroller. We'll see how we do. I have the limo picking us up forty five minute early just to make sure we have enough time to get through security.

We'll see how RJ does on the plane (and how we all do at the airport). Wish us luck!