First Flight of the Rocket

Rocket got his first airplane flight earlier than we had originally planned. Insitu signed up to participate in an engineering job fair at MIT, and of course the obvious people to go would be the MIT alums. Free trip to Boston! We'd take Rocket with us and extend the trip to visit with as many of our friends as we could fit in. More on the trip will be coming later, but his first flight deserves its own post!

Our flight left Portland early on Thursday morning, so we booked a hotel room next to the airport for Wednesday night. After our exhausting previous day and the departure flight early the following morning, we had intended to head to bed early. However, it didn't quite work out that way; I think we made it to bed sometime before 11pm. Anders slept in the corner of our tiny hotel room, swaddled in blankets, on top of Corinne's down coat, with a chair as a barrier so that we didn't accidentally step on him in the middle of the night.

Aside from having to get up early, traveling with him was pretty easy. Our airline tickets were pretty inexpensive - particularly for a non-stop flight across the country - so we bought him his own seat and brought along his car seat and associated stroller frame. He was an easy traveler, sleeping for much of the flight out.

When he wasn't sleeping, he was as happy as can be. He was particularly interested in checking out everyone else on the plane when I walked him up and down the aisle. Of course part of that was to show him off, too.

A kid like this makes the parents look GOOD - but he deserves all of the credit!

- Mike, Corinne, and Anders Rocket