We're home! It was a long time coming. Three flights cancelled. Long waits in the airport. Flights delayed. Plane maintenance required. Baby benadryl spit out. Screaming daughter. Landing at 3:45 AM. Taxi ride. Home. Whew. We were happy to get back to snow. We were also happy that we were marooned with family we like and with access to a vehicle and grocery stores and a comfortable bed and a swimming pool. All those people stranded at airports away from home having to take taxis to and from hotels. We were very lucky.
We made the most of our stay over in Texas. We went to the outlet mall one day and took advantage of after Christmas sales. Maggie is okay with shopping if she can occasionally crawl around and if she's allowed to touch all sorts of different fabrics. And if we keep the trip to about an hour. We also visited the San Antonio zoo on a rainy weekday; we were almost the only ones there! Maggie really likes the zoo. She made all sorts of animal noises as we walked along. Her roar is especially darling; it's very delicate for a bear or lion. The SA zoo is really neat -- you get to enter a lot of the exhibits where there are no fences for the animals. Maggie was really interested in the parakeet house, especially when one landed on us, and she liked the guinea fowl and ibis too. She wasn't as big of a fan of the drive home, but it's exciting that zoos are in our future (Bill and I love zoos).
When we got home on Thursday (I think), we had our Boston Christmas and Maggie got to open a whole other set of presents. Like her bike seat and helmet! We tried her out in it yesterday, and she really likes it. She didn't mind the helmet being put on at all, and when we took off rolling, she clapped her hands. Very exciting! It's not exactly the season for bike riding, but it's a nice thing to be looking forward to in the spring. And you can see in the videos that she's outfitted for such an experience -- she's had her yellow jersey waiting just for this.