Texas and Colorado, October 7-13, 2015

We have been looking forward to this trip to America! My best friend/sorority sister/roommate was getting married in Colorado. We planned to fly to Houston, have Harvey stay with granny, fly off to Denver, then drive to Colorado Springs...wow what a trip!  This was Harvey's first time to his homeland. I was dreading the 10 hour flight, but the excitement to see family and friends (and Target) outweighed the stress.

We woke up in London to an email that our flight was cancelled! Ahhh...thank goodness it all got figured out and we were still able to get the baby cot on the later flight.

I had read that for long haul flights you could request a baby cot. I had no idea how this would work or what it looked like, but I requested it just in case.

View from my seat

Here is the cot. After take off they pop it right in the wall of the bulk head seat. When we first saw it, we both thought no way would he like it. But evidenced below, he slept in it for 5 out of the 10 hours! What a cool invention. It holds babies up to 25lbs so hopefully we can use it again.

Sleeping baby

We ate tons of Mexican food and frantically met up with friends. Everyone wanted to meet Harvey!

Julia

Uncle Ron

Kinsell boys

Grandpa

Christie

Josh and I headed to Denver. Harvey stayed with Granny, she had lots of fun things planned. This was the first time I had been away from him overnight, but I knew he was in good hands and I would get lots of pictures.

Saying bye to Harvey

I think he likes them

Granny spoiled Harvey with homemade meatballs and sauce. Hope he isn't expecting this when we get home!

On the plane to Denver

My first flight in a year without a baby. We can travel so light when its the 2 of us! It was a bumpy flight so I was not able to completely enjoy my freedom.

Rehearsal dinner

Wedding with a view

The wedding morning we all got ready in the suite at the Broadmoor Hotel. The views were stunning! It was a perfect day.

Meghan getting her hair done

My hair

Ready to get dressed

Colorado was beautiful

Walking down the aisle

Josh and the girls at cocktail hour

So happy to see these girls

She's married!

My hot wedding date 

My friends searched Colorado Springs for a pressed penny

First time in a carseat

Loved Chick-fil-a

Texas is sunny!

Since we will not be in Texas for Halloween we had to get dressed up and take some pictures at Granny's house. My little giraffe is so cute!

Off to London

Our trip was short and we didn't get to see everyone we wanted, but we loved being in Texas. I do have to say the restaurants were so baby firendly in America, but the airport was NOT. We have been through many airports in our travels, and Houston was the worst by far. Josh had to get a full inspection along with all of our bags in order for us to bring the formula, this was because their machine is not able to check the formula from the UK.  A bit odd and unorganized but what can you do, no country is perfect.

We got the baby cot again and this time Harvey thought it was funny to sit up and play in it. Once they served dinner and turned the lights down he fell fast asleep.