Briana's Travels

I'm happy to report that the intercontinental travel went well! We said a hug-filled goodbye to Daddy who dropped us off at Dulles airport at about 3:30pm on July 4th. Toby kept entertained at the gate with a new pirate-themed activity book - you can see our plane in the background. He paid close attention to the safety announcement... ... and found the games on the screen amazingly quickly! He slept for about 3 hours on the flight from Dulles to Heathrow (7 hours). When we got off the flight, we asked if the captain could sign Toby's flight log (he got a kids flight log on his first flight on American Airlines when he was 4 months old), which the captain was very happy to do - he even invited Toby to sit in the cockpit! We had about 3 hours to kill in Heathrow until our flight to Kenya; we rested, we ate breakfast, and we played in the "family lounge". Toby settled in well for the flight from Heathrow to Nairobi (8 ...