Fear of Flying

As some of you may know, we will be leaving tomorrow on our very first vacation with Rory - a 7 day cruise of the Hawaiian Islands, which includes a 5 hour plane flight there and back. And while this may sound like a FABULOUS vacation (and I'm sure it WILL be once we actually get there), the idea of flying with my EXTREMELY ACTIVE 17 month old absolutely terrifies me.

Unfortunately, since we've never done this before, we didn't realize that it would be a good idea to get him his own seat and take his car seat (which would be familiar and more calming), so instead, he will be sitting on our laps for the entire flight. And for those of you who know Rory, have you EVER seen him sitting on our laps for five minutes let alone five hours? My God, we must be crazy.

Yes, we thought about trying to "knock him out", but we followed the advice of our pediatrician and did a trial run with Benadryl, and of course our Rory is one of the 10% of kids in which Benadryl has the OPPOSITE effect. So instead of falling asleep, he was running all over the house like he was on speed for 2 hours. Good thing we tried it out first, eh?

Yup, we're just THAT lucky.

So Plan B is to try and keep him entertained with a bunch of new little gifts, all beautifully wrapped for maximum attention grabbing potential, and perhaps we'll just save the Benedryl to take ourselves. Haha.

Well, if all else fails, at least we'll have some fabulous blog stories for when we get back!

Wish us luck...