we made it. we made it and all our baggage made it too. i’m calling it a success so far!
where do i even begin? i feel like i have enough stories for ten blog posts so far but i’m going to try to sum it up. the flight over was fabulous. we flew direct from jfk to milan. my least favorite part of all the many, many hours of it was probably the traffic in brooklyn when we were within an hour of jfk. anders was over it. and honestly so was parker. in the stop and go traffic, the poor kid started to feel sick (carsickness is not new with him) and before we knew it he had thrown up right on himself. saddest. i had gotten him and anders matching pajamas for the flight over and they were already in them. his first words after he threw up, “but my pajamas were the same as anders!” it broke my heart. we cleaned him up, had a change of clothes–a whole suitcase full of clothes, actually–and proceeded. but, it wasn’t the best start. once at jfk, it was pretty smooth sailing (flying) until our destination. anders and parker both slept most of the way, while the rest of us caught a few moments here and there (the many movie options were too enticing for william or lindsey to close their eyes for too long!). it was a 10:20 pm flight.
so, there we were in milan, at noon their time but feeling like we were in some weird time-warp-middle-of-the-night thing. parker knew we were in italy and anders thought we just woke up in a place that looks and sounds a little different from home. we tried to be the tough and resourceful travelers and we began walking to our hotel–mind you, our phones weren’t working yet–without any real sense of where it was. steve says he knew, but between you and me, i’m not so sure. there we were, asking questions and hauling way too much luggage (we actually did okay luggage wise, but will be doing even better when we can drop some off at our home base). so, luggage is rolling, and we are hot and tired, and i’m cursing steve for buying that stupid $70 luggage at marshalls that does not look like it’s going to hold up for much more of this. anders is off and on crying and so i’m off and on nursing while we’re off and on walking. “200 meters that way!” the italians who helped us were so kind, but do you really have a sense of what meters are? i don’t. gimme the “it will take you and these three hundred pounds of luggage approximately sixty two minutes to walk there so call a taxi now.” that’s what i want to know.
(side note: i hate going to other countries and forcing them to speak my language.)
we made it so far, we got so close, when anders was just over it. i really hate to push him past his breaking point just because he’s so nice about it. his threshold is really high, so you feel like a real jerk taking advantage of him. the kid had traveled for what felt like days already. let him get in a real bed!
so we grabbed a taxi. and the man laughed because… we were like 1 1/2 minutes from our hotel. okay, maybe 2 with our luggage.
did we still want that taxi? yes we still wanted that taxi.
steve basically ran-walked beside the taxi with the stroller and still beat us maybe?
was it worth the 10 euros? it was worth the 10 euros!
so there we were at our hotel and happy to be there.
and now we’re in tremezzo and i’m going to share more later because that’s enough for now and it’s 3 am and i can’t sleep but really should be trying to sleep.
ciao!
At least your problems are small…and they're problems in Italy! How can anything be wrong when you're there 🙂
So sad about P's pajamas comment though. Poor little buddy!
Tell us all so we can live vicariously through you! How VERY exciting! And I wanted to mention the family pictures were so well done! Loved the different poses and you look great! Lela
I love it! Glad you all got there safely – I'm excited to follow along and see what your time there is like! 🙂
How exciting! Loving the pictures on Insta so far!! Now get some sleep!!
Glad you guys made it, I'm loking forward to following along with your adventures in Italy! I tagged you in a few of my Lake Como recs on Instagram 🙂
While we were in Europe, we were super adamant that we were not going to take anything but public transit because we didn't have our son's car seat…and we really stuck to it when we got to France but when we were in Lake Como it was a legit heat wave and that place is hillyyyy. Our hotel was at the top of a huge hill and we had all our luggage and so we finally broke down and took our baby in a cab, sans car seat. (Insert monkey covering eyes emoji here)
But you're in for a treat, the Italians loveeee babies! Everyone was so over the top nice about engaging with our little guy, it made our time there a blast!
Yay! Can't wait to watch your journey unfold! 🙂 xoxo
This is all so amazing. I can't wait to live vicariously through you guys!
So exciting for you and your family!
If your luggage does end up breaking, which I hope it won't, look into getting backpacking backpacks for the bigger kids. I just backpacked through New Zealand and Australia with nothing but one of those, and it was amazing!
So excited to follow you on your adventure! Have a wonderful time you guys!
Way to go, intrepid travelers! Can't wait to hear more of your adventures. Please don't spare any of them from us 🙂
Can't wait to read the next chapter of your family's adventure!
My husband and I went to Italy last year on probably that same flight (Emirates Air?). Getting to Milan was thrilling, and yet we were so.stinking.tired. We forced ourselves to trudge through the day with no naps (even at 15 weeks pregnant!), but I do recall some cursing at my husband as we walked for what felt like forever.
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