Empire State of Mind

With Hanukkah in full swing, we packed our bags and headed to Long Island for Bill's (our) Cousin Heidi's wedding. As always, it was too quick of a trip but we got to celebrate with Heidi and Dan and spend Hanukkah with much of our NY family.

This was Spencer's second plane trip and with him being quite a bit older now, I was worried it would not go as smoothly as it did months earlier. He hates to sit for long periods of time and he is much more vocal these days. I was very surprised at how well the flight out went. After his bottle, he settled in for a nap and was out the rest of the flight. Thank Goodness!

We first flew to NJ because Bill had a business meeting there on Thursday. While Daddy went to work, Spencer and I settled into the hotel for the day. The next morning we were up bright and early and headed to NY. We spent most of Friday and Saturday afternoon visiting with family and before we knew it, it was time to get ready for the wedding. Bill's cousins Shana and Michael (cousins from Bills other side of the family) watched Spencer for the evening so we could go to the wedding.

After a night of celebration, drinks, and dancing, we were up early again for a visit to see Uncle Oscar and Aunt Jo and then to Brunch with the rest of the family at Aunt Michele and Uncle Eugene's. Like I said, lots of people to see :-)

We headed to the airport after brunch and settled in for what we thought would be another smooth flight. WRONG! Spencer had a horrible time with the flight home and screamed for most of it. Many of the passengers were so nice to us and even offered to hold him for us so we could relax for a bit (of course we did not take them up on that). The truth is, and I learned it on this flight, there is just nothing you can do in this situation. The more you stress over it, the worse it gets so, we just tried to comfort Spencer as much as we could and then once we landed we vowed not to fly again anytime soon :-) No, seriously, you never can tell. We will fly again but after a whirlwind weekend we were just exhausted.

Thanks again to all our NY family for a fantastic visit and all your help. We love you and miss you already!

Here are some pics from our trip. I will post some of the wedding as soon as I get them (we did not bring our camera).