The family that vacations together may sleep in the same hotel, eat the same food, travel in the same small car, tour the same museums and keep the same hours. We tested that hypothesis during a day trip last August to Germany, France and the Netherlands with our own family. Each person kept a secret diary, and the code was not cracked until we returned. But even before the day we shared the diaries, it was obvious that we saw things from different perspectives.
The secret to a relaxing flight across the Atlantic is to sit separately from your children. Ruth: I had that sinking feeling that maybe taking a year-old and a 9-year-old to Europe and spending two weeks with them in a hotel room was asking a lot of parents who just wanted to relax after a tiring summer.
But on the plane, luckily, Paul and I ended up sitting in two seats together, three rows ahead of them. Within an hour, all the window shades on the airplane had been closed and we had entered that Twilight Zone of long plane trips, after which the reward would be getting off the plane somewhere else, in this case Amsterdam.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that we were not going to be charged for headsets or drinks on the flight, even though we were in tourist class. Dandy: This will be a plane trip that I will talk about for a long time! First thing that led me to this decision was when Richie, my little brother, took off his socks and shoes. Somehow, amazingly enough, his sock ended up halfway across the plane. Richie: When we were trying to go to sleep, the kid in the seat in front of us popped up and started yelling and laughing.
And she complained that I was kicking her. Ruth flies ahead to a medical meeting she is covering in Hamburg, leaving Paul to trek across the northern part of the Netherlands and Germany with two sleepy children. Richie: Not much happened today. We landed in Amsterdam at a. Then we rented a car and drove to Hamburg.
