With Easter and the royal wedding providing three national holidays within a week of each other we decided it was time for an extended visit home. For Arianna this would be her second flight though this one would not be a short hop to Miami but an almost three hour long one up to Houston. She did very well and though she fussed more we chalked it up to the fact that she was expecting the flight to only last an hour like the last ones did.
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| At the Airport in Grand Cayman |
We arrived in Houston late on Friday April 22 and stayed with Arianna's Aunt Melanie our first night back. Saturday morning was breakfast with my roommate from college Gary and his family. I hadn't seen his children in a couple of years and Katie had not yet met his youngest daughter Sarah. We got a chance to catch up on family news and a little Longhorn sports. We also picked up some stuff he had been storing for us these past four years to take to our storage facility.
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| With Gary and his family |
After spending some time with them it was time for the longest leg of our trip, the four plus hour drive up to Dallas. We tried to break it up with constant stops for feeding and for Arianna to get out of her new car seat. One of our stops was at the Sam Houston statue in Huntsville. There is a state park and visitor center there which provided a great rest stop. We took Arianna out to the statue and she was pretty entranced by the crowds of people and the big marble man.
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| Full statue with us at base |
The car ride itself was hard on Arianna. We got her a new car seat which had been delivered to her Aunt Melanie and which is huge. Even with her new "throne" though, she really doesn't like being in any car seat so long and she fussed most of the trip. We eventually made it to Dallas after an almost five hour trip and Arianna's reunion with her grandparents and first meeting with her Aunt Stephanie.
