Taking August On His First Trip

It's hard to imagine what, if anything, goes through the mind of a nine-month old baby the first time they board an airplane, fly across the country and land in a completely foreign city with people he most recently only knows through online video chat.

We touched down in Calgary just three days ago and it's been filled with ups and downs. The downs being mostly horrible sleeps as August wakes up to new smells, new textures and new rooms. Poor guy. The ups, however, have been pretty cool.

August met his cousins for the first time. He only has two, so it was an equally exciting experience for all three of them.



We took part in an Easter Egg Hunt, which was also full of excitement -- maybe too much excitement and too many new people, but none-the-less, an experience. It will be cool in a few years when August can get in on the action with the other kids.

Showing little interest in his regular bath routine, we weren't sure how the little guy would take to going to a rec centre with a flowing river, water slide, and the like, but he was awesome. He even lasted just over an hour before we took his pickled self out.



My true love and I even got to go out for a nice meal and saw the play The Mountaintop. The funny thing about having a kid is that when you get a little time away, you think it's going to be awesome, but truth be told, you just wonder what he's doing most of the time. Also, the sounds of children at a nice restaurant that used to annoy me, somehow just make me miss him even more.