Friday, August 20, 2010

Not so Happy Trails contd. part 3

SOOO another teary goodbye and down the ramp we go. Finally we were on our last leg of this journey. AND then, as we boarded the plane the flight attendant asked to see a sticker on Aliah's car seat to verify it was approved for air travel. Since Aliah was IN the seat it was kind of difficult to flip it around, she couldn't see it. She then informed me, "I'm sorry man but you can't use that seat on this plane if it doesn't have a sticker". And then she asked us to step off the plane!! OH NO SHE DIDN'T and out came my nuclear meltdown part 2!!! in which case my poor little daughter Isabella followed and began to cry why aren't we going to see Mickey mommy!! I yelled at anyone who would listen about why between yesterdays nightmare and today I went through 4 different types of security checks and at no point did anyone question me about the seat UNTIL I was already on the plane. After a lot of yelling by me, eventually they brought Isabella's car seat up for Aliah to sit in...because there wasn't a chance in (%%$$ I was going to hold her for 2 1/2 hours when I PAID for her own seat.

You can imagine what Lisa was thinking as she stood bye at the window waiting for the plane to take off, and saw Aliah's car seat go under, and Isabella's come up. I think she was ready to jump on the plane herself!

So long long story short they believe that it was more safe to not use a brand name-5pnt harnessed car seat- and to put my 9mos old child in a 3yr old's car seat all because of a STICKER that fell off. It made no sense and neither did the fact that I had to hold Aliah's head from falling down the entire flight. . . because she was in the WRONG car seat!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr again the bunch of &^%$#@ airtran employees were of no assistance. They truly have horrible customer service.

Aside from the nightmare experience, the girls were absolutely wonderful. Once we got on the plane, Bella was super and really liked it. I'm so glad and thankful that at least that part of things went well and everything else was just out of my control.

Finally we landed in Florida and were met with wonderful loving arms by my friend Susan...we were here, we  had our luggage and now it was time to have some fun!! So off to the Hillmans we go!

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