Monday, October 25, 2010

The trip!

6 am Saturday morning we got up and pretty much just woke the children up and got in to the car (Anders took us to the airport). Both Isak and Jakob were happy in the morning so it went quite well.

The first flight to Stockholm went without problems with 2 happy children. Had lunch at Arlanda and Jakob played while Isak slept in a luggage trolley. The fligt was on time even though it was full, not one empty seat in the whole plane! We got quite disappointed when we got told that Isak was too old for a basinette! we had booked one through the travel agent and also when we checked in and nobody mentioned that the baby must not be older than 6 months. Not much to do. Adam and I took turns holding Isak when he went in to his night sleep. At least he got some sleep, we got nearly none.
Jakob did well but had a few moments of not wanting to sit still. It happened when they were handing out the dinners and he tried to get out under his tray and run around stealing lollies from other passengers. Not much fun and Adam nearly paniced. Luckily it didn't last for so long and about 7.30 he fell alseep on the floor. Not long after a flight attendant came and told us to pick him up, he wasn't allowed to sleep on the floor. Full plane, no basinette for Isak and trying to get Jakob to sleep sitting in a chair. Not ideal but we got through it.
In Bangkok Jakob who was probably over tired ran around like crazy for almost 2 hours. He did it in an area where it was ok to play and run so good for everyone. On the the short flight to Krabi he fell asleep and was reallly tired when we had to wake him up. It was nice to get picked up by a nice can with air conditioning and car seats for the kids at the airport at Krabi. I can't remember much of the car ride to Koh Lanta becaus I slep on and off the whole way.
Nice to finally get there after a long trip but I have to say it went extremly well. I don't think we can expect from Jakob who is a child that loves running and don't like sitting still for long to sit quietly in a plane for 10 hours. He did as well as he could.

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