As Kendall and I crawled into our bed after safely arriving back home from our week long trip to Colorado, we literally gave each other a high-five and laughed at what we had just accomplished! =) So yes, we might be a little crazy for dragging two girls on two plane rides + a 3hr car trip to go skiing out west or as my dear husband says, It's just another one of our adventures-we're making memories! It seems that may be the way things go in our household-there is nothing impossible to undertake for the sake of travel in his world! I might just have a different opinion on this one being the mom =) We prayed on the way that God would give us complete grace towards one another that day and that if even if nothing went as planned, we would love one another well and aim to serve each other best we could! Feel free to skip over this little edition of our experience, but for the sake of documenting it, here goes: the day began on Sunday morning at 3am-I think we forgot this wasn't just the two of us traveling =) Obviously we weren't sure how the babies would do and whether this waking them up in the middle of the night would mean we needed to feed them, but determined to be a flexible mommy we just rolled with the flow.
All went smoothly-we snapped a quick picture of the car loaded down, got them strapped in, and off we headed for the airport. Arrived there with plenty of time to make it through our grueling TSA screening with twin babies and all that that entails (inspecting every drop of milk, baby food, medicine, etc) and made it to our gate with time to spare, after having repacked our 4 carry-ons. Fun fun! Tried my best to keep a smile on my face and be polite =) We arrived at the gate only to find out our flight had been delayed and then delayed again...for a total of 2 hrs. Again, there isn't much you can do about it so we took turns strolling them up and down the one hallway and then finally we boarded the plane and were on our way to our first stop: Dallas. If you have never contemplated what it is like trying to board a plane with two babies who cannot walk, trying to collapse a double stroller, and then safely carry said two babies with 4 carry-ons and jackets for the 4 of us, consider doing so. Hilarious mental images stored forever.
Only problem upon arriving in Dallas is now we had missed our connecting flight to Denver due to the delay. They were able to quickly get us switched to the next flight which just so happened to be leaving in 30 minutes. Sounds great except we have two babies diapers to change in addition to needing to pump in the restroom, feed solids to the girls, and repack the ice in our cooler of milk. Needless to say, not all of those tasks were accomplished and once again we boarded our 2nd flight rather disheveled to say the least! Thank goodness for kind souls who saw our need for help. I'm pretty sure jackets were on the floor and we probably looked like we were about to drop the babies in the aisle as we attempted to get our carry-ons stored properly in the overhead compartments. No pressure as everyone stares you down waiting to have an on-time departure. Who knew you could sweat when it's below 30 degrees!?! The girls BOTH did FANTASTIC on both flights and slept almost the whole way-we seriously could not have asked for more! A future flight couldn't go any better we decided. =) We touched down into Denver that afternoon and this momma couldn't get to the food court area fast enough-I had resorted to eating banana flavored puffs as we didn't have time to get any food in Dallas. I can't remember the last time I was that hungry. I think I ate more than any person should consume at one time but I didn't care, I was finally full. We then proceeded to the rental counter dragging all our luggage (way too cheap to pay $5 for a cart! =) In hindsight, should have probably just paid it, ha! And insert two babies who fell apart completely at this point-they were in new car seats that were way too big for them in addition to being told they now have a 3 hour drive ahead of them (ok so they didn't fully understand how long of a trip they had) but they didn't like the idea of being strapped in a new place. I think they cried harder than I have ever heard them cry which broke my heart! But needless to say, we made it safely to our humble abode: The Ritz Carlton in Beaver Creek =)!!!
All went smoothly-we snapped a quick picture of the car loaded down, got them strapped in, and off we headed for the airport. Arrived there with plenty of time to make it through our grueling TSA screening with twin babies and all that that entails (inspecting every drop of milk, baby food, medicine, etc) and made it to our gate with time to spare, after having repacked our 4 carry-ons. Fun fun! Tried my best to keep a smile on my face and be polite =) We arrived at the gate only to find out our flight had been delayed and then delayed again...for a total of 2 hrs. Again, there isn't much you can do about it so we took turns strolling them up and down the one hallway and then finally we boarded the plane and were on our way to our first stop: Dallas. If you have never contemplated what it is like trying to board a plane with two babies who cannot walk, trying to collapse a double stroller, and then safely carry said two babies with 4 carry-ons and jackets for the 4 of us, consider doing so. Hilarious mental images stored forever.
Only problem upon arriving in Dallas is now we had missed our connecting flight to Denver due to the delay. They were able to quickly get us switched to the next flight which just so happened to be leaving in 30 minutes. Sounds great except we have two babies diapers to change in addition to needing to pump in the restroom, feed solids to the girls, and repack the ice in our cooler of milk. Needless to say, not all of those tasks were accomplished and once again we boarded our 2nd flight rather disheveled to say the least! Thank goodness for kind souls who saw our need for help. I'm pretty sure jackets were on the floor and we probably looked like we were about to drop the babies in the aisle as we attempted to get our carry-ons stored properly in the overhead compartments. No pressure as everyone stares you down waiting to have an on-time departure. Who knew you could sweat when it's below 30 degrees!?! The girls BOTH did FANTASTIC on both flights and slept almost the whole way-we seriously could not have asked for more! A future flight couldn't go any better we decided. =) We touched down into Denver that afternoon and this momma couldn't get to the food court area fast enough-I had resorted to eating banana flavored puffs as we didn't have time to get any food in Dallas. I can't remember the last time I was that hungry. I think I ate more than any person should consume at one time but I didn't care, I was finally full. We then proceeded to the rental counter dragging all our luggage (way too cheap to pay $5 for a cart! =) In hindsight, should have probably just paid it, ha! And insert two babies who fell apart completely at this point-they were in new car seats that were way too big for them in addition to being told they now have a 3 hour drive ahead of them (ok so they didn't fully understand how long of a trip they had) but they didn't like the idea of being strapped in a new place. I think they cried harder than I have ever heard them cry which broke my heart! But needless to say, we made it safely to our humble abode: The Ritz Carlton in Beaver Creek =)!!!
I'll add a disclaimer here by saying if you know my husband, you know he loves to travel and you would also know that he finds the most amazing deals ever!! So that is how we landed ourselves in a five star resort for a few days before the rest of the family could join us and we proceeded to have THE BEST time as a family out there, enjoying God's beautiful creation! As Kendall says, who cares if we have the dungeon level room that overlooks the trash receptacles =) It did not, but we did wind our way quite a ways down the hallway to find our room and we are also not too good to build a peanut butter banana bagel for dinner that night just so we can afford to enjoy places like that!
The next two days were spent enjoying some delicious food in Beaver Creek Village, making s'mores by the blazing fire out by the slopes of the resort, snapping pictures of our two girls in the snow, and just relaxing (which doesn't happen a whole lot in the world of raising twins-not just two kids, but two BABIES! :)
We spent two nights there and then made the 2 hour trek to Steamboat Springs where we met up with the rest of the Currie Family. They were incredibly gracious and generous to take us skiing for the week and ski in/ski out made it possible for this mommy to come and go as the babies needed feeding. We had the absolute best time together and we thank his parents for being so giving of their resources for the sake of sweet memories that will last a lifetime! It's definitely never as much fun traveling home as it is coming, but like I said-we did it! With 8 month twins in tow and for us, another adventure had just been completed!
