Our journey up and down - Part 1

Like I mentioned before, this 'travel' was my nightmare for many days before the trip. But Alhamdulillah *Thank God* things turned out to be wonderful and memorable.

We flew to Calicut via Doha in Qatar Airways. Liya was all excited and when we were in the check-in counter at Buffalo airport she was simply running everywhere with joy. She was eager to meet her grandparents and she kept saying that "I am going to see my Ummamma (granny)". To my surprise, she was letting the security guards to scan her bags, jackets etc. When I removed my hand bag and jacket for x-ray scan she shouted "Mummu's bag (Mummu- that's how she calls herself)... Mummu's jacket" and put in the respective boxes.  How sweet! This was quite unexpected move from her side. I was expecting her to scream when her backpack goes through the scanner. But she seemed to be worried that she may not let in if she doesn't do it. Little ones sometimes think and act beyond our imagination, aren't they?

At Buffalo Airport

 The only problem we faced was at Buffalo airport. The person at the counter was really weak in using computer and it took almost half and hour to check in! And then we found that he had checked in our baggages till DC airport only. We had to beg him to redo it and check- in till Calicut. Luckily, he was a nice guy and helped us. Though, he was able to check-in our baggage, he wasn't able to check-in ourselves into other flights. So we did not get our boarding passes for Qatar airways from Buffalo airport. It was kind of worrying situation as we had just 1.5 hours gap in DC airport, and DC airport is like a desert, it takes a lot of time to reach international terminal from domestic. Usually, we can chek-in our entire trip from our first airport, even if we are travelling in different airlines and no matter it includes domestic travels too. But it was good that he was able to check-in our baggaged till Calicut so that we did not have the tension of carrying and checking it at every airport we pass through.

Buffalo, NY- Airport

We reached airport almost 3 hours before. So, we had boring waiting time there. But Liya was not bored or tired. There was a teenage couple sitting and having some 'romantic talk'. Liya went to trouble them very often. How embarrassing! But, both of them were nice to her; they smiled and had some chit chats with her too. She has some obsession with dust bins, even at home she keeps searching for things to put in dust bin. At the airport also, she was scanning through the floor for tiny particles and was putting in the dust bins. I had to run behinds her to ensure that she doesn't pick up dirty particles from the floor,

All excited- on the way to DC

We traveled to DC via United Airlines. As many of you know, it is a very small flight, passengers were very less. Liya was trilled about the trip that she was simply running to the flight as we were boarding. She was running inside the flight as well. She wasn't sitting anywhere. She was not knowing that we were at the door steps of the most boring and long flight journey. She sat in her seat happily and allowed me fasten her seat belts. She was sitting in the flight with all pride and happiness. We both were equally glad to see her happiness.

Trying to get rid of ear pain..:)