pre-vacation anxiety

next thursday, i will embark on my 6th trip to the lovely emerald city aka seattle, WA…teddy, cadence and i are visiting our rockstar brother and sis-in-law charles and ali…i call ‘em rockstar cuz to me that’s what they are…they do things like ride their motorcycle up to yukon territory and hang with the bears and caribou for 3 weeks…or blaze cross country and roll into our post-wedding karaoke/pizza party dressed in leather…they are way cool like that…and we’re gonna spend a handful of days with them soaking in the cool seattle sun…maybe visit bruce lee’s grave…spend two days at bumbershoot, which will end with iggy and the stooges…spend some time with our friend ian and his family…

this will be our first flight with cadence (unless ted’s dad takes us up in his plane before then which is not likely)…i’m a tad nervous… how will she react to being confined to an area of approx 8 cubic feet for 4.5 hours? and what if the pressure change makes her little ears pop painfully? will we be the parents with the bloody-murder-screaming baby surrounded by glaring passengers? what if someone buys the ticket for the seat between ted and me (we’re taking cadence as a lap baby and i bought the window and aisle seats in our row in hopes that we would get the whole row to ourselves…selfish, ain’t we)? will they have a diaper changing table in the plane lavatory? will she poop during the flight? and what if she won’t sleep once we get to seattle? or when we come back home? what if she gets her night and day mixed up? and do they sell 7th generation diapers in seattle? should we lug our stroller on the plane or just buy a cheap umbrella stroller when we get to seattle? are we even gonna need a stroller since i'll be wearing her most of the time? will cadence survive two full days at bumbershoot? how will she take naps? where will she sit when she eats? should we take her little chair with us?

so these are just some of the questions i’ve been chewing on these past few months…i’m sure everything will work out okay…i just need to chill…