Quicksilver

It may be hard to believe, but our family is on the road again! Every now and then, Josh and I plan trips that most people think are, well, ridiculous. This weekend's trip would be one of those. A while back, we found out that the U.S. National Soccer team would be playing the Brazilian National Soccer team at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Being the crazy soccer fans we are, we called up our close friends in Chicago who are also big soccer fans and made plans to come out and support our team.

The trip out was pretty good, though we kept getting threatened with delays. First they said we would be delayed an hour, then 30 minutes, then they boarded us. When we got on the plane, it turns out we were actually suppose to be delayed an hour and a half from our original departure time and that air traffic control had been telling us the wrong times! Our pilot seemed pretty steamed as he was relaying all this to us in the cabin and finally came on and said he had basically shamed traffic control into letting us take off. Once we were up in the air, Maya played with her princess sticker book and colored in her new Trunki passport. We got Trixie quite a while ago, before the good people at Trunki had developed the passport that comes with the new ones, and they were nice enough to send us one to use for our travels. Maya loves it! She had a great time coloring in all the pages and asking about all the pictures...that is, until she drew a great big green line on the back of my nice white shirt with crayon! They had to be put away after that one.

While we were flying, we were also treated to a beautiful lighting show. We were far enough away from it that it didn't cause too much turbulence but it was still fun to watch. I think making something like that, that can easily be kind of scary for a kid, into something fun and exciting is a good way to handle it. Then, rather than seeing it as something to fear, they look at it almost as a game. Much like with the waves in La Jolla, we had a great time trying to guess when the next bit of lightning would flash in the clouds and how big it would be. It really was a beautiful sight and a fun way to pass the time.