Flight to Russia

Getting ready to go to Russia took longer than I anticipated.  I am sure working up to 2 days before I flew out did not help at all.  We had it down to take 6 bags and the stroller but after the movers left my house with all the stuff to be shipped to Russia, I realized I forgot a good bit of stuff.  So an extra bag had to come out.  In all I have 10 bags total.  Yes please don't freak out and No I do not need you to tell me that that is too many bags.  In my defense this is to be everything I need for 8 weeks until the shipment of everything else comes in.  Getting to the airport was not a problem.  My dear friend Michelle and her mom drove us to Houston from Lafayette.  I was about certain that the little ole Lafayette airport could not handle all my bags and I am sure that some would have been lost.  Getting on the plane in Houston was no problem.  In fact going through TSA with a baby was much faster than all my past experiences.  Just a lot to handle with bags, a baby, and their rules.

So we got on the plane and Owen was tired and hungry so of course he was a bit fussy at this point.  The guy next to me did not seem thrilled.  Now mind you this is an overweight man with so much jewelry on I am sure he did not pass through the metal detectors.  Not to mention his dangly diamond earring.  He proceeds to ask me if I am going to give my child a sleeping pill.  I am not very nice at this point and tell him he will be quite as soon as I feed him but I am waiting for take off unless he would like for Owen's ears to bother him the whole flight.  He said nothing else to me.   Owen loved the flight attendants to the point that if he was fussy all I had to do was turn and face him toward them and he would quite down and stare.  This seemed to be the only thing the large man next to me seemed to agree on.  He and the guy next to him were hitting on the flight attendant with a lame pick up line about a Singapore Airline girl contest and that she should have won.  After seeing Owen staring at her I heard them say to each other that the baby had taste.
We had a bassinet in the wall for Owen to sleep in.  This was nice for the fact of him having a bed.  And he fell asleep right away but every time there was turbulence I had to pick him up.  This I did not look forward too and would try to procrastinate as long as possible to take him out.  It got the point that the flight attendant would stand over me until I got him.  Ugh.  He slept the whole flight.  I am proud to say that it was not my baby that cried the whole flight.  :)  Yeah one thing that I was worried about down.  Now only if I knew what was waiting for me when I got off the plane.