Off to St. Albert

Well, at least that's over. 

Our flight left at 6:30pm out of Hamilton airport.  We swung by dinosaur camp to get Paige, had an easy check in for our flight and enjoyed some Tim Horton's smoothies and other random sandwiches. (Hamilton airport basically has no food at all). 

Things started out ok, with Rose happily watching the TV in front of her.

Paige was playing with some surprise paper dogs that I had tucked away in the carry on.

As the flight went on and Rose got restless and tired, things went down hill.  She didn't have a nap (of course she didn't), so by 8:00pm or so, she started to get a little nuts.  Now that we occupy 4 full seats, Mike was across the aisle.  Rose kept asking for "Daddy!", and sitting with him for 5 minutes, and then "Mommy!" and sitting with me for 5 minutes.  We were telling her she could sleep, but the sun was pretty bright as our plane flew west.  We were telling Paige to sleep to, but she didn't want to either.  At least Paige was just rubbing her eyes and yawning, but essentially acting normal.

Finally she sat with me at 10:00ish EST and closed her eyes and fell asleep face down on my nap mere minutes before the seatbelt sign would go on for landing:

She was so fast asleep at this point, that my moving her didn't cause any problems and I was able to put her in her seat with her seatbelt on.  She just lay there like this for the entire descent, landing, and while all of the other passengers got off:

As we didn't bring a stroller (we never use it anymore), we had no where to put her as we lugged our stuff along. At first I held her and then Mike took a turn.  She woke up at first and was screaming and trying to lie down horizontally.  She perked up when we went outside to load up our rental car and install the car seat, but promptly fell asleep as we drove off.  Paige still was awake at this point, pretty alert actually, but fell asleep after I told her the ride to Auntie Booze's house was long and boring (so basically Paige went to bed at 11:00pm.

Both girls were asleep when we arrived.  As we opened the car doors, Abby even jumped in my side and went into the back to sniff them.  Neither of them woke up.  We put Rose straight into her bed, and managed to take Paige to the bathroom and bring her upstairs to say good night to Jen, James, and Abby.