California: The flight out

This summer we decided to make a big trip out to California, to visit Darren's family. My dad's family had a reunion in Colorado in July (coming later...), so we decided to leave a few weeks before and just hit the reunion on the way back across the country. Boy, was it one long month....

We flew out bright and early on the 25th, and I was pleasantly surprised how well Hayden did on the plane.

We had two flights, one from DC to Long Beach, and then one from Long Beach to Oakland. I thought for sure he'd fall asleep for part of the first flight, but he didn't. We kept him entertained with dental floss, stickers, coloring, and ultimately dvds.

He fell asleep during take off of our second flight and slept the whole flight. 

I'm SO glad we bought him a seat. It was so easy and he had his own space to sit and play around in. Definitely recommending it if you can afford it!