Hello second trimester!
How I am feeling:
Still feeling great! On our flight home, I got a bit nauseous, but it was a bit bumpy and I think that had to do with it.
Sleep:
Sleep is still the same, although I found, I sleep much better in my own bed haha. But I managed while we were on vacation :)
Cravings:
Still eating regularly, this baby just loves food!
Best Moment of the Week:
This week held our 1st Wedding Anniversary! I can't believe that it has already been a year! Time sure does fly.
This was a salt water pool!
We headed back towards Baltimore on Sunday to head to my families house in Damascus Maryland.
Their dog Crimpett
Silas
Patuxton, Crimpett and Silas following Tavid
Darci (or Barillo Pad as Tavid nick named her)
Tavid, Dillon and Silas
On Monday, we decided to head up to Frederick Maryland to poke around and see what we could find. Our first find, a Waffle House! This was Tavid's first time, and he was hooked!
We also found a restaurant in downtown Frederick that brews all their own beer. Tavid was in heaven getting to try different beers! I had to just enjoy the food :)
On Tuesday, our flight was suppose to leave around 2:50pm, so we decided to head into Baltimore's Inner Harbor to see the boats and then head to the airport.
We then headed to the airport, which began our 30+ hour adventure of being stuck in the aiport. There was a rainstorm that came through around 1pm, which began to delay our flight and ultimately cancelled our flight around 7pm. We then got put on another flight home which had been delayed to 10:30pm. We were told by the ticket agent that we had to go to baggage claim, get our bags and go back through to check them into this flight which meant going through security again. When we got down to baggage claim and waited for quite a while, we finally asked someone and he said anyone who got re-booked their bags were automatically transferred. Thanks a lot ticket agent, we ended up going out for nothing! We were hopeful about this second flight because we actually got on the plane.
Only to be told about an hour later that one of the pilots had hit his max duty time and they couldn't locate another pilot. At this point, we were stranded in the Baltimore Airport. We got off the flight and waited in a horribly long line to see what our options were to get home. Once we got to the ticket counter, we found out that there were no more open flight until Thursday June 23rd! We both couldn't do that, we had an option to be on standby to try to get to Chicago, but that wasn't even a guarantee. We looked on our own and found a flight from Dulles Airport (an hour away) that would get us home around 6:36pm, but we had two stops. It was our only option to get home on Wednesday. We looked into cars to try to just drive home, but cars were up to $900 to rent, and the time it would take just wasn't appealing at that point. So once we got our luggage, we went to find a shuttle that would take us from Baltimore to Dulles Airport at 2am mind you. We finally got to Dulles around 3am, we looked at the boards and could see there was a direct flight to Minneapolis at 8:30am that we wanted to try to go standby on. A really nice ticket lady helped us get set up, and she even guaranteed our bags to take that flight, so we wouldn't have to worry about where they were if we ended up not getting standby. We went through security (for a 3rd time mind you) and went to the gate to wait. Unfortunately, everyone showed up for the flight, so we did not get on :( So we headed to our gate to wait the flight we actually had tickets for. It was the longest morning waiting for this flight to take off, because it ended up getting delayed 40min, due to the crew needing to be off for a certain amount of time before they could fly again. When we finally got on the plane, it started our adventure of 3 flights home. We were heading to Rauleigh North Carolina.
When we got to Rauleigh, we find out that our flight from there to Chicago was delayed and at that point would make us miss our connecting flight to Minneapolis. We go up to the counter to see what our options were. Only to find out that she suspected our flight from Chicago to Minneapolis would be delayed, because it was coming out of the same gate that we were coming into. But just in case, she put us on another flight out at 10pm, but we could still get on our original flight if we ended up making it their in time. We got on flight number 2, and hoped when we landed that we would get good news.
When we got to chicago, we did get good news. It had been delayed and we have 40 min to get from our gate to the one where our flight was. We ended up coming into a different gate then originally planned, but thankfully the two gates weren't two far apart and we didn't have to walk to far. When we got the gate, we had heard from quite a few people that the flight had been delayed two hours at this point (it was suppose to take off at 5pm, but was now set to take off at 7pm). We felt bad for them, but we were ever grateful because it allowed us to make this flight to get home at a semi decent hour.
We got on the flight, but because there were storms in Chicago (and Minneapolis) we had to wait on the tarmac for an hour before we finally got clearance to take off. We were nervous that we were gonna get canceled again and would end up stranded in Chicago! Thankfully, Midwest pilots aren't afraid of rain and we took off and were headed home. It was a bumpy flight, which Baby Caswell did not like but we finally landed in Minneapolis at 9:45pm. We didn't have to wait for our baggage at the baggage claim, because it had beat us by almost 12 hours and was waiting at the United Airlines office, so we just had to go pick up our bags and we could go wait for our shuttle to take us to our car. The one plus to getting on different flights, is we were now coming into Terminal 1 vs Terminal 2. Terminal 1 the shuttle comes every 10min, for Terminal 2 you have to call and can end up waiting for a bit. We finally got home at midnight, and finally was able to sleep. We both slept only a few hours here and there throughout the whole ordeal, so it felt good to sleep.
Tavid is swearing off flying, but I feel he might warm back up to it sometime in the future. :) Our trip overall was wonderful, and I am sure sometime down the line we will laugh about this adventure in the airport for our first Anniversary!
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