I thought I'd have about 10 pages to catch up with after a week away!
Wytir, good to hear you're enjoying mummyhood more
And well done Jax on his jabs!
Courtney, lovely birth story, thank you!
Mummylanning, how did scan go? And dentist? Are the Euro vouchers just for Ireland, or could I use them in Germany?
Izzy, happy v day!
Had a good week in spain, but it was a bit dramatic today! I'd thought our luck was in because the cabin crew failed to notice B was under the age of 2, and she got a whole seat to herself for take off, with me sitting in a spare seat further back... All well and good until we are taxied and accelerating down the runway when we hit some birds and the pilot slams on the brakes! What an incredibly odd sensation to feel that rapid deceleration as you are flung forward in your seat, and then slamming backwards as the plane finally judders to a halt. I panicked I will admit, not because I was that scared of the incident itself, but more because I was nowhere near M and the girls. In the time it took us to stop, I had visions of disaster, and then terrible thoughts of what might have happened to B if she wasn't strapped to M's knee etc etc... The girls however were completely unbothered! The cabin crew bloke was quite dead pan about the whole thing - his announced " You might have noticed we had to stop suddenly" er, yes! All the announcements were made in German and then English - but there was generally so much animated conversation after the German version that the English was inaudible - so thanks to out neighbouring passengers for translating!
We taxied to the terminal and the plane was inspected while we were served juice or water - it seemed at this stage we might still get to fly. Then a further announcement made it clear that we wouldn't be going anywhere on that particular plane today... From what I could gather via the German announcement and the bloke sitting behind us, there was some cracked plexiglass and a problem with the radar. Probably best to be on the ground! Bus to terminal, luggage reclaimed, and then leg it to the Lufthansa check in desks to try and get on another flight. I thought we were doing pretty well to be 15th person in the queue, but then the bunking started, and people joining 1st and Business class lines, and cutting across at the last minute.... grrr!! Word filtered back that we were being put on a later flight via Frankfurt to Dusseldorf.
We queued, we queued some more and we tried are hardest to maintain good humour. Our trolley became quite popular when we put Peter Pan on the laptop for the girls to watch - our two, a Dutch girl and two Spanish boys crowded around at one stage! About 2 and a half hours later we made it to the front (they finally decided that more than 2 staff members might be a good idea...) and were told that there were no more connections for today that we could take; and then the even better news that we would have to go and queue at the Lufthansa ticket desk to get a flight tomorrow and a hotel booked - we legged it - and had only one person in front of us in the queue. I think to be honest, rather than take a 7pm flight to Frankfurt, to make a connection in 15 minutes and take another flight and then take two trains and taxi, a night in a hotel was preferable!
I'm shattered now!
