Ok, where do I start?!?
We have arrived in one piece despite being pretty worn down! As I typed this Oliver is PASSED out in the backseat while Jason ran into Walmart to pick up a few things for the house.
Last night we had dinner with mom and dad in Crystal City and then we settled into our hotel room.
In hindsight the hotel did not save us any sleep because I was up most of the night due to missing my bedtime creature comforts (2 fans). Oliver ended up with a runny nose that had him sneezing and coughing all night so he didn't sleep well either. We was awake awake at 5am so I oiled him up and put him up in our bed with a toon while I pulled stuff together. Within 20-30min you would have never known he hadn't slept much. We boarded the shuttle with a "whoa" from the driver when he saw our cart of luggage, and headed for the airport.
We breezed through the airport - everyone was so sweet and helpful because we were traveling with a young child. We knew Oliver was tired and didn't feel 100% but he spent 60% of the first flight (just under 6hrs) in either mine or Jason's lap. He even fell asleep while watching a movie. Towards the end of the flight he got weird - I thought he needed to go potty - he was hot, sweaty, beyond exhausted (couldn't keep his eyes open), and just not himself. We promised him that when we got into the next plane we would fix him up a nest and he could go to sleep. He was so sweaty that I thought maybe I had put too warm of clothes on him so I changed him into some jammies when we got to SeaTac. By the time we boarded the plane he was our Oliver again - happy, joking, playing, eating and saying he didn't want to nap. We didn't push him because he was having so much fun.
That fun only lasted until we began descending into Anchorage. He started crying, shaking his legs and generally freaking out. We figured it was his ears so I gave him gum (that he swallowed) and then a lolliepop - neither made a difference. Next thing we knew he was breaking a sweat again because he was freaking out so much. The cherry on top was the turbulence we hit just above Anc - it was BAD - worse than roller coasters bad!! He started showing some signs that he was going to be sick (we learned on our New England road trip that he either has some anxiety with too much movement or some motion sickness issues). We made it off the plane and got him in his stroller, I thought we were in the clear - NOPE - he christened the Anchorage Airport and my scarf that I managed to catch most of it with! :( Now he is back to being just plain exhausted!
The upside to all that turbulence and craziness was that even though Anchorage has some cloud cover sitting on the mountain tops - Denali was bold and bright, looking beautiful and majestic! Sorry, no pictures, we were a bit distracted between Oliver freaking out and trying not to fall out of our seats!
*Finishing this a few hours later*
We called in a pick us order from Moose's Tooth to continue our tradition of their AMAZING pizza for our arrival dinner! Pizza of choice... Macaroni n'Cheese pizza for me and Jason and cheese for Oliver. It was just as good as always... Best pizza ever!
We arrived at the house to find that we are at a high enough altitude to have snow on the ground at the house and BEAUTIFUL snow covered mountains surrounding us and snow flurries falling!! (Jason and I have both said that we would be perfectly fine to spend all 10 days in this living room)
We're semi unpacked, filled with pizza and exhausted but trying to hold out to a West Coast bedtime. Our little guy didn't make it... At 6:30 AK time (10:30 east coast time) he said "I want to go to bed." He is tucked in and never made a peep but we'll see what time we wakes up in the morning! :/
Jason, being the awesome husband he is has gone to Walmart to get me a fan so that I will sleep tonight! I am on the couch, in front of the fire place, watching Fuller House, finishing this blog post and enjoying this amazing view!
Thanks for the prayers - they were definitely felt!!
[I'm doing this from my phone tonight so all pictures are on my Facebook page]
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