Well, our Kidology-conference-extended-into-vacation trip is off to a good start. Travel is always a bit of a pain, and tougher with a little tot, but we are now settled. Here is a quick recap of our day.

The first of many retraining devices Luke would be in today!

Luke is a such a great traveler! He puts up so naturally with all the contrainsts of travel… car seat to stroller to tight airplane seat to stroller again to shuttle to rental car seat and hours upon hours of travel. He was strapped into something or confined to a small space from 8:30am until after 6pm! And only once complained, and even then had a good reason. (which we promptly smelled)

This being his fourth time flying (see his first flight) I gave the camera rest and just enjoyed the flight, except for a one point where Luke kept excitedly pointing out the window at something, but I could see nothing but clouds, so I took a picture with my iPhone to look at later more closely later when I could zoom in.

If you click on the picture below to view larger, maybe you can make out what Luke was so excited about seeing out the airplane window:

If you can see anything, let me know in comments.

CAR RENTAL RANT: (skip this paragraph if you want)

Can I rant a little? We got a great rate on our Budget rental, but I think it is because they laid off all their employees. At the airport it took forever to get our car, and then they did NO inspection of the SUV and I had to point out the damage in two places and insist they make note of it so they don’t try to blame it on me when I turn it in. My last trip to DC I ended up with a damaged rental car, and I wasn’t taking any chances. TIP: It is your job to check the car for damage before you drive off the lot, they love to try and pin prior damage on you so they can make money several times off one accident. After once having them try to pin damage on me I didn’t cause, I’ve had this happen several times where I inspect the car and find damage and the act surprised it’s there. But they never seem surprised on the other end.

We ate Chick-fil-A in honor of Steve and Amy Tanner.

We finally got to our resort and it is a beautiful place after dark, I can’t wait to see it in the day time. (even though Google Maps could not find it, nor our GPS, so the local gas station gave us directions when we backtracked, and said they meet most of the guests who end up at that same gas station!)

Sara went grocery shopping so Luke and I played and moved in. Sara came back with some bubble bath for Luke to enjoy in the hot tube… which for Luke will be a Luke-Warm tub… get it? LUKE warm? (never mind) Anyway, I decided to try the bubble bath stuff and it didn’t seem to work, so I kept adding more, and nothing happened. Then I turned on the jets… OH BOY!

I guess Mr. Bubbles works after all!

Well, time to head to bed, off tomorrow to hang out with Todd McKeever, Kidology’s CP Team Captain and another CP Team member… guess who? GOOD NIGHT!