A Trip to Florida.

Erik, Gage, and I flew down to Florida right before Thanksgiving to visit with his dad and stepmom.  Gage had a GREAT time, he loved being with his Grandpa and Grandma Treena.  Gage called Erik's dad 'PawPaw' the whole time but Erik wants him to be called Grandpa, so we will work on that :)

This was Gages' first time on an airplane.  He did great!  We boarded the plane in CLT and not long after we sat down the pilot comes on the intercom, "we have a small light burnt out that has to be replaced before take off, we are expecting up to an hour delay" (insert moans from everyone on board).  Well......an hour and a half later, we were ready for take off.  The flight was fairly short (took about an hour and a half).  We kept Gage occupied with TV shows on the ipad (Dora, Bubble Guppies, Mickey Mouse, and Diego).  He probably had 4 suckers to help with his ears and 3 bags of "gummies" as he calls them.  Gary and Treena picked us up from the airport and we were off to West Palm Beach.

The biggest shock was how hot it was.  It was 80 degrees!!! So hot that we had to go buy Gage and I shorts.  Erik was prepared, we were not.  They do have a pool so we got to swim (I didn't get in but I did put my bathing suit on.

On Saturday we woke up and headed to the zoo.  Gage had a ball!  We saw all different kids of animals and Grandma Treena bought him some dip n dots, yum!

On Sunday Erik and his dad had tickets to the Panthers vs. Dolphins game.  They couldn't have picked a better game to go to....it was a nail bitter.  Panthers won in the last 45 seconds.  While they were at the game, Treena, Gage, and I went to this really neat wildlife park.  We walked a mile (Gage rode in the stroller) and saw lots of birds and ducks.  Gage did attempt to feed the ducks but he was interested in eating the bread without their help :)  We didn't see any alligators but that was ok because we saw them at the zoo the day before.  After Gage took a nap we attempted to go to the park but not long after we got there is started raining.  So we decided to go to the play area in the mall :)  Gage got his picture taken with Santa while we were there!  He wasn't so thrilled with Santa but eventually he let Santa hold him.  Clearly the picture is before the haircut, oops.

On Monday Treena had to work so Gary, Erik, Gage, and I went to the mall where Gage got a MUCH needed haircut and I got a MUCH needed pedicure :) The men and Gage went shopping while I was being pampered :)  Monday night we went to eat at a place called Two George's for Gary and Treena's 19th anniversary!

Tuesday.....oh, Tuesday.  So we got up that morning and took Gage to the park since we got rained out on Sunday, he LOVED it!  That boy would stay outside all day if he could.  We then went home, packed up and headed to meet Treena for lunch before it was time for the airport.  After lunch, Gary dropped us off around 2:30 for our 3:25 flight.  We get to the terminal and the sign says "departure from FL to CLT, 5:05".  Um....pretty sure we were supposed to leave at 3:25.  So Erik gets in line to ask.  As he is waiting in line one of the workers comes over the intercom "flight ------ will be delayed.  The plane you will be taking is still in Charlotte due to maintenance issues, BLAH BLAH BLAH".  Oooo, I was not happy.  Seriously.....we have a 20 month old here and you are JUST now telling us this?  I'm pretty sure you knew this LONG before our flight was supposed to take off (an hour from now).  So Erik called Gary and he came and picked us back up because we knew Gage would not last at the airport that long.  Long story short, our plane did not end up taking off until 7:30 that night.  We walked in the door at 10:00....ugh.  Erik said, "no more flying for this family", haha.  Gage was very good.  I guess because of all the delays many people weren't on the plane.  So we had an extra seat in our row...perfect, Gage had his own seat!  Again he watched shows and had tons of suckers and fruit snacks.....whatever kept him happy.

So, besides the nightmare flight back home, we had a great time!  It was so nice to see Gary and Treena and Gage absolutely loved them!  He ate kiwi for the first time and hasn't stopped talking about it since :)  Thank you Grandpa and Grandma for everything!!!!