Planning for the Hebrides

Logan's French grand-parents arrive tomorrow afternoon and we're all going to the Hebrides on Saturday.

My mum, Logan and I will be flying while my dad and Logan's dad will be driving. It's a 7-hour drive (including lunch stop) from Ayr to Uig on Skye to take the 1.5hr ferry to Tarbert on the Isle of Harris. We decided that Logan was too small still to withstand that. So we spent a little fortune on flights to Stornoway for 3 of us.

You know, Logan doesn't get his own seat on board the plane. He will have to sit on my lap. He still pays £25 per leg!!! That's just wrong. He doesn't even get luggage allowance. Who's ever travelled with a baby? How come they don't get luggage allowance?? They travel with more stuff and crap than BOTH MUM AND DAD together!!

I have made a list of everything we are taking for Logan:
Potty
Changing mat
Bath mat (just in case the cottage doesn't have one)
Bath toys
General random toys
Some books (he loves books now, it's only been a week or so)
A full bag of 56 nappies (Huggies were going cheap)
Wipes
Tissues
Travel cot
Duvets to put at bottom of travelcot (makeshift mattress)
2 bedsheets (in case of an accident)
2 sleeping bags (see above)
Swimsuit (in case we have time to go to the swimming pool)
so, of course, armbands
Swim ring (he sinks with only armbands)
Swim towel
Towels (cottage only provides towels for the adults)
Calpol
Twixilix (there's a y in there somewhere)
Karvol capsules for blocked nose
Thermometer
Bottles
Cups
Plates
Cutlery
Bibs

This is all the stuff that comes on top of what adults normally take, which is really just items of clothing and toiletries.
It's unbelievable! And they are not allowed luggage on planes????? Despite the fact that we pay for the priviledge of having a wriggly, impatient, annoyed, tired, bored, restless child on our lap (of course Logan isn't like that at all, he will, as we say in French, be as quiet and well behaved as a picture: "sage comme une image").

Of course he has no clue what's happening just now, but I think he'll enjoy the airport and plane experience with his mama (that's me) and mamie (that's my mum), especially since he can WALK now woohoo!!

Keep checking for an update on the whole travel experience with a 1 year old... :)