Day 20: Home…
What a night…everything went as planned the suitcase where 98% ready and all combined 2 kilogram to heavy but we figured that Emily would get that resolved with being her normal self and saying hello or something.
We finished the the wine, beer and chips before we went to bed around midnight until Emily woke us, ok I’ll be honest, woke her mama for the first time at 1:00am. The third time at 2:09am I woke up too and went to her room and she started coughing weird and before I knew it I was 110% awake and tried to catch her vomit.
She vomited in her bed but wanted to continue sleeping in it…not a good plan and so she ended up in our bed. At 3:00am when we were finally a sleep she vomited one more time, but this time she showed that she is becoming a big girl quickly. She woke me up with force and determination (that’s necessary) wanted to go to the toilet and vomited there. Unbelievable…I had never expected this as it’s only the 3rd time I’m her young life that she experienced this, you can imagine how proud we were. Besides that we were also worried about the next 15 hours until we would be home.
After this second time she climbed into our bed and fell a sleep right away. As usual we didn’t get a lot of sleep as Emily used up about 3/4 of the Californian King side bed but at least she got sleep.
In the morning everything seemed to be fine and she was busy with emptying the suitcase we just packed, very helpful. At 9:15am we were ready to leave to SIXT to return our rental car where we arrived at 10am, I’m missing that car already.
The shuttle was already there to bring us to the terminal and a half our later we dropped of our suitcases. Emily did what she was supposed to do and the steward looked at the scale shook his head but waived the additional fee while he was having fun with her.
Next stop security, went very smooth. Although the additional check in food items is a bit over the top and it just slows everything down. From there we went to The Club @ MCO to spent another 2 hours until our boarding would start.
When we came to the gate there were additional security measures with an additional TSA check, very annoying at first but in the end I believe it made the boarding process go smoother. No one dared to start lining up to early which is a big issue at MCO as 2/3 of the people travel with children and block the whole area.
The flight was easy Emily slept before we left the gate for about 1,5 hours and I slept for about an hour during the flight. The remainder of the flight Emily was busy with colouring, watching Cars and Elena of Avalor. At 4:15pm we landed and from there everything went reasonably fast.
Danielle got us coffee for the way home while Emily started loading the suitcases in the car! And yes it is cold here only 6 degrees Celcius… After short detour to get milk for Emily at the Supermarket we arrived home at 6:15am. The same time as our dinner ordered through just–eat.ca got delivered.
After dinner we started unpacking and now Emily is in bed and we are winding down from this crazy day. Tomorrow everything is back to normal when I go back to work and Danielle does her usual things again…
But what a vacation, the cruise was amazing, the Townhouse was great, the visits to the parks where superb and the weather was as good as it can be this time of the year. I wished we could stay there forever….
Day 19: Home…
Our alarm went of at 7:00am, way too early but we needed to leave on time to the airport. Yes, today is our last day of the vacation and the only thing we do is travelling. After we’ve got everything done we wake up Emily at 8:00am and 30 minutes later we are ready to leave.
We return the rental car at National with less than 10 miles of gas in tank, I think that’s pretty close to perfect. Someone helps us with our luggage, check-inn at the Air Canada counter went smooth. Customs was a bit different, I went through the body scanner and for the first time the scan was not perfect, somehow the hair bands from Emily ended up in the pockets of my jeans… Also the stroller got a full cleaning service, I think they used at least 6 swipe pads. My bag got pulled out as there was lot going on in it (I typically have all electronics in my carry-on). Finally and 30 minutes later we were all done and took the people-mover towards terminal B (Gates 70-119).
Close to our gates we went to the “The Club @ MCO” the lounge we are able to access because off the credit card we have. Emily enjoyed it and interacted with a (I think) Japanese girl, we enjoyed while Emily had fun and they had a pancake machine.
At 11:20 we left towards the gate, boarding started 10 minutes late, we took of 10 minutes late and we arrived 15 minutes early. Everything went better as anticipated so far, but I needed to wait a very long time for the stroller to be brought up to the gate. As a result we ended up in a huge line at immigrations, it seemed to take for ever. After a while we were first in line when the employees asked us to let a bunch of people pass us while we were travelling with a child…weirdest thing ever! And no I wasn’t asking to get benefits for traveling with a child, I’m just asking to be treated the same as others. I think I’m never going to really like Pearson International Airport…
After one hour we were finally through customs, our suitcases were already on the belt and so we left the airport at 4:10pm. Emily slept a couple of minutes later and we arrived home before 5:00pm.
While we unloaded the car, Emily directly checked out all her toys and seemed really happy to be back home again. This was our first vacation of the year, a pretty amazing one even though we were all sick during the trip.
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