Trip to Brazil with Cici

Cecilia and I are in Porto Alegre, Brasil visiting family and friends. We had a very long airplane trip that it actually started with a car trip to Salt Lake City last thursday. Our flight to NYC left Abril 16th at 8:30 am. We were at the airport around 7. Thankfully they allowed Luiz to pass through security with us. It was a great help and we could kiss goodbye on the last minute.

Cecilia was a joy to travel with. She slept through the first take off and first landing in NY. She had a lot of fun in the airplane and was very successfull with the flight attendants.

We arrived in NYC about 4 hours before our next flight. I thought it was going t be plenty of time but it wasn´t. That airport is huge!!!! And to help there are no signs, people were just telling me where to go. After going down in the elivator the door opened and I am outside with a hungry, tired and crying baby, it was cold and very windy. There was no sign showing where I should go next. I was getting so frustraded and just wanted to go back home and a man shows up from nowhere and ask me where I needed to go. I told him and he said: Okay, I´ll take you take. He had no name tag on him, no uniforn, I didn´t see where he came from...I was so nervous he was taking me and my daughter some place else I just started do pray....I was in NYC....He took me to the right place where I needed to take the train and go the terminal I had to. I was so grateful!

After that, another long line to check in. After one and a half hour I think I finally got to go to the boarding area and it was almost time to board. I still needed to call my hubby to let him know we were okay. He was getting nervous with no news from us he called the airline company and they told him it was time to start the boarding process right when I called him.

Cecilia was a joy to travel with. So sweet and calm.

We finally arrived in Rio where people were not very friendly with a mom traveling alone with a 9 months old baby! Not even the flight attendants! I was already so tired and sore that anything was driving me crazy and I needed to stay calm for my daughter.

We finally arrived in Porto Alegre and saw all the family there waiting for us! I was happy to be there but already missing my hubby!!