Last Pre-Baby Trip Day 0 (19 April, 2007)

This is called day zero because we didn't do much except drive to the airport to get on a plane.

Laura and I had been planning a trip to Holland to visit the Keukenhof gardens for over a year and because she's pregnant we decided that we'd either go in 2007 or we'd have to wait a little while to see how well junior travels. We also wanted to include a visit with Laura's cousin Susan and her husband and daughter.

With Mom and Dad Hart taking care of Dog, we loaded up the car and headed off on our way.

At the time of our departure, the US Airways counter (they were the cheapest airfare) looked as though it was being run out of someone's garage...and that garage was in serious disarray. They had roughly 20 self-check in consoles and only 5 or 6 of those were functional. And those that were functional were very slow which caused no small amount of groans from the long line of those waiting.

We asked the guy for an aisle seat so Laura could get up and move around on the plane like the doctor suggested. I had assumed he would've made some attempt to seat us together...I was mistaken. Our ticket guy managed to get us the worst aisle seats on the plane - the very last row and the row in front of that. Neither of us were very happy.

A short 8 hours and 20 minutes after we boarded the plane in Philadelphia (I forgot to mention that US Airways departed from Philadelphia for our flight) and like magic we were in Frankfurt...and not a moment too soon - we needed to get the heck off that plane.